My heart sank when I saw the DLive news, but as time has gone on I have realised that I should not have been surprised.

Honestly though it is absolutely relieving to see how absolutely pwned they got by the community. Not only was there a massive backlash by the Steem and existing DLive community (which, it turns out, was far more Steem-oriented than I guess they believed? Imagine that), but within hours of the announcement everyone who was anyone had heard of the Steem-driven alternative, vimm.tv.

The thing about streaming is that it's not easily decentralised. Making streaming truly decentralised is something technology is simply not ready for. That made it easy for DLive to make a huge gamble and move to another platform. I'd say I wish them luck because they'll need it, but I don't, and I hope they fail.

I hope they fail as an example to any other app or "community" which tries to do this to Steem. Their failure will be a message to all "dapps" on Steem (until we have smart contracts that term is a real stretch to be honest)... and that message is:

You don't stay here because consensus forces you to. You stay here because the Steem community is directly subsidising the incentivisation of your userbase.

Without Steem, DLive is fucking nothing; if you do like they did, you too can be nothing . The choice is yours.