RE: Bluffer's Guide to Steem/Hive - Witnesses, Governance & Forks
Dear @nickyhavey
Such a great and valuable publication. Thanks for sharing this "comprehensive" and long guide it with me :)
I shared it with few guys from project.hope. I think they may benefit from reading your article.
What this means for existing users of Steem is that everything will work exactly the same on Hive.
Kind of. Will we have steemd.com to check our voting power? Will we have steemauto and steemworld? What about steemconnect and steem keychain? Not many things will work exacly the same way on hive.
After recent events, putting together this latest Bluffer's Guide was a no-brainer given that the topic of decentralised governance
Hive will show if decentralized governance can work out. Right now HIVE will be fully centralized. More than steemit ever was. And no storytelling will change it. Hive will be absolutely dominated by group of few closely realted users/businesses and I can forsee that anyone having different view on their actions will be quickly silenced.
Yours, Piotr
Not quite. Any account can choose which witnesses they want to vote for. On Hive, the distribution is a bit more balanced now that the massive 75-million SteemIt Inc. stake is gone.
This means: Hive is already more fair in terms of decentralization than Steem is currently.
Secondly, as for Hive "censoring" posts, I doubt that will happen. The group that started Hive did so specifically for decentralization. What you're claiming is an "if". Meanwhile, on Steem, posts are actively being censored. No "if", it's actually already happening where SteemIt Inc. has pushed changes to SteemIt.com that hide posts talking about Hive.
If you are worried about censorship, my move would be to go where things haven't been censored yet. Sure, it's early, it may happen in the future, but "may" is a whole lot better than "is".