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RE: My Thoughts on HF22.5: You Can't Make An Omelette Without Breaking Some Eggs
This was really helpful to me. Thank you. The biggest take homes for me were (1) the softfork was an aggressive move and (2) the experiment goes on. Steem's decentralisation will only be really possible when the stake is very widely spread. For that we need to grow.
What to do?? Breathe. Give myself a night off from curation & posting. And continue planning & creating great content. I have loads to say & contribute, as do so many.
Steem remains the best option on the market. To evolve sometimes has growing pains. Im confident & committed.
Remember to vote for witnesses. A big part of the problem here is that most people have never bothered to actually be part of consensus.
A bigger problem is most witnesses are not open.if it comes to what they fo, stand for and do not support the community at all.
@wakeupkitty I'm not 100% sure what you mean. What I'm getting is a sense of not knowing the witnesses, like they don't share about themselves? ("... are not open") Then you're saying that they don't support the community? If so, I heartily disagree when it comes to many of our witnesses, based on my 45 months here.
I know quite a few of the witnesses, and follow quite a few more but don't know them myself. With many of these folks being here 3-4 years, and the fact that everything on the blockchain is public, it's pretty to learn how someone will act/react. At that point you can generally trust someone to be them-self (act in the ways that they historically have), and that's about the best you can hope for with humans in general.
When I recently re-did all my voting (in response to 0.22.2), I found that after giving out my 30 votes, there were still a couple people left that I wanted to support. I know the shift to less witness votes per vest is an important one, but I'm hoping it will be sliding scale like our voting weight, so I can still support a bunch of witnesses.
Perhaps you know them because you follow them all but I do not and with me many Steemians do not. Can it be because they never swim between the little fish or answer? It's good to hear you have different experiences and are rewarded for it.
If I look at the witness account, the description I cannot find up to date info about what they do and stand for. I like to know who I give my vote and believe me I am not the only one. I do not vote out of envy or fear or to get rid of an owner because some say... What do they say exactly?
Thank you for sharing your experiences I will have a look if there's a chance for me as a mobile blogger only. All sites seem to be out of my reach. 💕
Ditto @artemislives. My thoughts exactly.
i think you got it! and yes have a night off at least!! there is a world out there too ;-) but i »know you know that! xxx
A big part of the problem is witnesses being s bit slack about explaing who they are and what they stand for. Giving a proxy is not anything I, or most steemians, like. We came to be part of true decentralisation. Im guilty of not having filled most of my witness votes. I HAVE ASKED several leaders in my steem world to please POST about their top 10 witnesses & WHY THEY CHOSE THEM. To hear "he's a good guy" isn't enough.
I think I will lead this morning with a POST & invite comments around this issue to help people vote well.
Appreciating your insight & comment @kennyskitchen. Thank you.
Ya... sort of. I think most people came here for censorship-less social media that pays them.
Most accounts never once voted for witnesses, and most that did only voted one time.
The current economic/education/social model teaches people that they're never supposed to worry about the foundations of anything, how it's run, etc. The masses are trained to just assume things are working and there is nothing they need to do unless the big news is telling them to do something.
Thank you for writing part of my post. 😊 Promise to quote you. 😉
Oh I've been going strong for the last couple weeks haha. I can send you screenshots and voice messages about this whole thing along the way, as I explain it to a ton of people, ask questions about it, get in the conversation, etc.
I'm gonna write it simply, clearly and from my Luddite position. But I promise to quote you. :) Nearly every new steemian who hasn't voted for witness is DISempowered by the sheer volume of rhetoric and discourse. LOL.