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RE: TravelFeed 3.0, Independence And Cross-Posting
The past has shown that content stored on one blockchain is just far from an ideal solution and we decided to become a standalone platform to secure the content of our users. It's just interesting that what we were working on and gained respect for over the years, is all thrown out of the window because we don't blindly follow to the new big thing. Users on TravelFeed come first. There is no black and white, especially when looking at governance and power grab as long there are humans are involved. So being independent, to have have full control over our direction and not depending on some big fish in the pond or devs, looks like the only way to move forward to for ANY app to me.
Also I would like to underline that we don't favor one blockchain over the other - TravelFeed gives the tools for our users to make their own decision. Especially when more blockchains and supported frontends are going to be introduced.
"blindly"... what you are blindly doing, apparently, is turning a blind eye to what is actually happening on Steem. It is to be expected that an average user of your travel site may not be fully aware of what has happened to Steem. But you as a developer absolutely can and should be held to a higher standard. You say you are staying on Steem to give your users a choice. A choice is only meaningful if it is made with adequate information. This is not like offering users a choice between two web browsers, or two login options. If you truly want to give your users a choice you would have to tell them: "You can keep posting on Steem but we have to tell you that the network is no longer secure and it no longer qualifies as a blockchain (100% centralized / single point of failure), your wallet funds may not be safe (funds from users already frozen arbitrarily - I would say frozen for disagreement with JSun but look at @freedom, who was not involved in attacks on JSun, not involved in Hive, and wasn't even powering down - Freedom was staying on Steem and was the second largest investor behind the stinc stake and got frozen! Look at @darthknight, not a witness, not a hive dev, not attacking jsun, just a large investor who made the horrible mistake of buying 2 million steem right before JSun bought steemit!); the token you will earn has a high likelihood of being delisted from exchanges (guess what, hot tip, crypto networks controlled by a single entity that arbitrarily block user funds including an exchange account usually get delisted from exchanges...); there is no development on the chain and the community and developers that used to be on Steem have moved to Hive. If you told them all that and they still wanted to post to Steem, that would be offering your users a choice.
As it is, at best it is negligent to continue offering Steem as a choice to your users and at worst it is a straight up fraudulent. There is no possible way that you can in good conscience recommend users to use steem. You couldn't recommend someone to invest in it, you couldn't recommend someone to hold funds in a steem wallet.
At this point it is pretty obvious that the promise of $ from JSun was enough for you to throw your morals out the window. You have lost so much respect from me and the rest of the community. Have fun on a sinking ship. I hope you take your blinders off before the water actually fills your lungs and travelfeed completely goes under.
Let me clarify some things for you.
1.: Our business target is bloggers and travel writers from all over the world, most of them are not even involved in blockchain, nor they want; their main objective is to post their content on every option they have (i.e FB, Twitter, Hive, Steem, TravelFeed, Wordpress page, YouTube), that's how content creation works.
2.: TravelFeed users are TravelFeed users, we are not encouraging them to post on Steem nor on Hive, it's up to them to decide; new TravelFeed users' accounts are not linked to Steem/Hive, they are free to sign-up to the blockchains at their own will and following their own risk/judgement. It's also their own choice to cross-post on Steem/Hive, we are not forcing them.
Again, where have you concluded that we are recommending users to invest on Steem?