I don't support people who STILL posts on steem!
On March 3, 2020 I wrote this post trying to rally original users to vote for the original publicly selected top 20 witnesses right after Justin Sun tried to hijack the steem blockchain. That was a historial event. Probably the best short summary is written by none other than Vitalik Buterin in an artcile titled "The Most Impostant Scarce Resource is Legitimacy".
mind you some of the projects listed here by Vitalik lost its shine (while others are thriving!), as it was written in March 23, 2021, please excuse Vitalik for that!
In early 2020, Justin Sun bought Steem-the-company, which is not the same thing as Steem-the-blockchain but did hold about 20% of the STEEM token supply. The community, naturally, did not trust Justin Sun. So they made an on-chain vote to formalize what they considered to be a longstanding "gentleman's agreement" that Steem-the-company's coins were held in trust for the common good of Steem-the-blockchain and should not be used to vote. With the help of coins held by exchanges, Justin Sun made a counterattack, and won control of enough delegates to unilaterally control the chain. The community saw no further in-protocol options. So instead they made a fork of Steem-the-blockchain, called Hive, and copied over all of the STEEM token balances - except those, including Justin Sun's, which participated in the attack.
The reason I brought this up today is the fact that even after two plus years there are individuals who still post of both blockchain for rewards. Granted some are new, and may not to be aware of the history. However, there are still a whole lot of people out there who still regularly posting on both chain just for maximizing rewards and they are legacy steem user, just like myself. Some are here longer than I have, pre-2018 even!! We must make the new people aware and give legacy people an ultimatum.
I won't supprt them
As a community we shouldn't support them.
Pledge
We can't control free will. So we can't 'ask' people not to post on steem. However, we can make a stance of not supporting them. I certainly can as an individual.
My reasoning is quite simple. In 2020 the compnay that owned steemit, the website, (not the blockchain) attacked the steem blockchain (at the time) which was public and owned by the community (a precursor of current hive community). It tried to sell the blockchain and it's users. When that failed, it essentially hacked the blockchain to steal it from the community (us) who had their assets in the blockchain. It essentially stole assets worth millions of dollars (what currency to use here?). To save our assets and our digital home, the community created hive as a hardfork. Steemit Inc is a company now owned by Tron. They have locked and stole many accounts. We never know if they will lock and steal again which is why I personally do not support any use of that blockchain.
Over the years many linkages have been but by various segments of the community and leaders. This is my person pledge.
No more!
I don't support steem users anymore. I hope other individuals and curation projects join this movement.
