People often talk about "the calm before the storm," but we rarely hear of the opposite: The calm that follows a storm.
It's very quiet in the world. I went for a walk through our neighborhood... the typical sound from the nearby main road was conspicuously absent. As I walked, I also noticed that there were few — if any — planes overhead. That was also unusual; we're roughly on the flight path for SeaTac airport.
Then I went for a DIFFERENT Walk...
Although we have all (mostly!) safely moved to HIVE, I spent some time cruising around Steemlandia today. Like many people, I'm not exactly "done" there, because I have posts that will keep paying out for another five days or so. Then there will be the whole powering down and migrating.
Some part of me was quite sad to see just how much things are already falling apart over there. And posting and retrieving posts seemed... slow.
And then, the new additions to the Steemit TOS: Is forbidden to talk about or promote competing web sites or promote other people. Or something like that. WTF, over??? Not even giant corporate shitfunnels like Facebook do that!
Censorship and... SELF-voting...
Seems the Steemit account has been busy voting... mostly downvoting. Wow! $350.00 downvotes. Talk about overkill. @andrarchy managed to collect two of those.
But then this:
That has to be the biggest self-upvote ever seen! Of course, they "had to" do that to even make their own post visible.
The whole thing was pretty disgusting and depressing.
Poking around a bit more, I could really tell that we took the heart and soul of Steemlandia with us to Hive. And I'm glad it happened!
I Grayed Myself Out... and I Invite You to do the Same!
I'm not interested in causing havoc to our old "home." After all, I'm interested in getting as much value for my Steem as possible, so I can invest it here.
Instead, as a quiet show of non-support I "grayed out" my own account and my alts... just a sort of "memo to myself" that I am done, and a message of solidarity to those who have been censored and downvoted. Ironic, isn't it? Downvoting by the very people who wanted to take away downvoting!
So this is what my page looks like, now:
And my art blog:
And our cat blog:
Removed the color, and currently at 60% opacity for a while. Will probably reset to 40% when the accounts are half powered down, and leave them at a ghostly 20% when all is said and done.
Maybe it's silly, but I kind of like the idea of leaving my "ghost" behind, as a final exit statement. I think it would be even cooler if a bunch of Old-Steemians ghosted as well... leaving a bunch of faded accounts as a monument to our disgust... launching the tag #ghostprofile for this idea, if you care to follow.
And now? I kind of done with grumbling about Steem.
We need to focus on tending to THIS garden, rather than getting bogged down in lamenting the old one!
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