Most of these forked projects will fail, and maybe some will recover their communities by coming back to Steem and do a similar thing as PAL does: launch a Nitrous layer with a dedicated Scot token. As far as I can see right now Steemians love the idea of having communities on Steem - and I always wondered if WLS shouldn't have been an SMT (not blaming them for not wanting to wait any longer on those being deployed though :D) as WLS was 'born' on Steem.
From what I've seen from peeking on the platform from time to time there's been quite a bit of fighting going on, some 'camps' forming in the community, also a new Hardfork a week or so ago that might or might not work out: maybe some people will leave because of it as most come from Steem and are used to this way of doing things, but also some other people might find it's exactly what they're looking for and sign up because of it.
There's less focus on 'trending' posts and such, and more on forming groups and 'befriending' people - don't know how that will work out, from my first impression engagement lowered significantly but that might be because people have to get used to the changes.
Wow, I had no clue they went thru a fork.. goes to show how disconnected I am from WLS news.
HF was not even mentioned on their official account 😂
Still isn't. If one for one witness, nobody else would know.
Well they sold the place as an escape from bidbots, but the lie detector test determined that was bullshit. Largely why I'm powering down and exiting.
I warned in the beginning that a nerfed flagging will lead to no viable way to counter abuse, which has been going on largely unchecked, essentially the community turning a blind eye to it and now the majority is in complete denial about the blatant vote selling going on. They have a bunch of features but they removed flagging, like the fastest car, but no breaks.
They have bidbots with extra steps. More fees with BTS or now, EOS.
It's not 'bidding' but yes, let's just call it vote selling.