[STEEM] And Now, for Extra Irony ...
… I can't even log into SteemPeak to manage tokens, posts, or any other sort of activity, through SteemConnect or SteemPeak's own login system (which at least still works over here on @PeakD, which I still maintain is a terrible name since once you've peaked your on the way down or the name is implying getting maximum dick).
Look, I was no great supporter of this whole Hive blockchain split in the first place, in part because I felt that it was done in the exact opposite of the spirit of community by a group of witnesses who certainly had all the opportunity in the world to fix things before Justin Sun stepped in and then proceeded to Nice Job Breaking It Hero by doing exactly what they feared a large investor would do, use pooled stake to enforce whatever law-in-code they wanted to. Thanks, guys.
Of course, JS, given every opportunity to say useful things to the people – the vast majority of people – who were still using the platform, managed to screw it up at every turn, go full authoritarian, and did so in a way which was insanely stupid. No, I'm not talking about his original plan to use the stake he had legitimately purchased from a legitimate holder in a way completely in accordance with the code-as-law. I'm talking about changing the code to illegitimately lock out other people because they were saying things that he didn't like and doing things he didn't want. That's exactly what the witnesses did in the first place which soured me on their entire plan.
Now where are we? We have a blockchain without tools that have been ported for discovery and communication updates. We have another blockchain without the ability to even access it for a multitude of reasons. We have a lot of people who are responsible for the shitty situation both of them are in at a very specific level.
And you have the rest of us who just wanted a nice, stable social media platform with a simple, basic community mechanism where, in theory, possibly, we might see a few pennies now and again in order to buy a cup of coffee.
Nice job burning it to the ground, you guys. Nice job.
Light My Fire
You spend years running around in circles, arms in the air, screaming hodl at the top of your lungs, begging for a big investor to come along and buy their way into stake. One comes along who has some ideas, and immediately you start telling everyone how terrible it is but there is a pump and dump coming – you know, all the people that you had been telling to hodl for several years. And then you bail, splitting out your own service, raising some significant questions about what you'd actually been up to for the last two years. You screamed and yelled and stamp your feet about the idea of powering down being anything less than 13 weeks and then you decided that what really needed to happen was a mass exodus and the establishment of a new blockchain in under 13 weeks (in under four weeks, truth be told), completely removing the ability for "the community" to respond in any kind of reasonable way.
Great job. I'm sure you can hear my golf clap from there.
Kudos, Far As It Goes
If there's one group which, while I don't agree with everything they've done have at least stood out as doing a good job of the one thing I need them to do (for the most part) it's SteemPeak. Yeah, logins on their main server are totally broken, but given that Steemit.com is also completely and utterly broken for getting to from here, I have a strong suspicion that there are a bunch of bots out there expanding their little guts out, trying to break any kind of access to platforms. Between that and Steem developers deciding to just shut down their service by means of wrongheaded protest, ensuring that their users can't actually migrate to something better, SteemPeak stands out as being relatively stand up guys – even if they can't pick a name for service to save their lives.
I'm just generally disgusted. I suspect I'm not the only one. And that's sad.
But What Are the Options?
If you're looking for a place to be able to post your content, whether it be video or text, blog or travel photos, pop over to LBRY. I can't and won't promise that you are going to make big wads of crypto cash because there aren't just big wads of crypto cash to be made over there. I can't promise that you're going to find a huge audience just waiting to eat up everything you have to say because there really isn't that huge an audience hanging out over there yet. It's going to be on you to find people who are interested in the content you're producing and point them to your work.
But at least they'll be able to see it.
If you want to check it out, come on over to my Operation BSU repository or my Lex Tenebris ID where I'm going to start putting duplicates of content that I would otherwise be posting to Steem/Hive.
In the meantime, I hope everything works out all right for the people involved.
Most of the people involved.
Some of the people involved.
A chunk of the people involved.
You guys.
Did you see the change to terms of service here? Its ridiculous
I saw. That's part of this new era of stupidity that I see JS getting involved in. Absolutely unnecessary, unrestrained authoritarianism, and not even sneaky enough to be respectable in terms of at least being a competent villain.
He had every opportunity to at least look better than the competition. It wouldn't be hard. All he had to do was harp on the fact that they hadn't improved the situation for the average user in years. Hit hard on the lack of infrastructure. Call out the guys who froze his legitimately acquired stake as a threat to other large investors.
And then do nothing else. He didn't even have to improve the situation/platform, he just needed to be able to prove that he wouldn't make it worse and that his opponents actively had.
And he couldn't even do that.
That's an embarrassment for everybody involved.
Now it looks like we have full on pot to denial of service attacks floating around, which was absolutely probable given the resources available to both sides, and the people that suffer? Us.
I don't even know if this reply will be able to make its way through the system to you. The one thing that we come to this platform to do, I don't know if it's going to work. Because of all this bullshit.
I think it's going to be 13 hard weeks for this blockchain. And then a complete re-learning about the possibilities to come. A project like SteemWorld seems to remain for now in Steem. Maybe some former early witnesses and developers return, this is my guess. But yes, for now everything seems to depend on choices by JS.
Here's the problem with that…
There is no learning or relearning about the possibilities to come. There is going to be some people coming up with some ideas for things they want to do in the future but, just like the past, they are going to have to do so largely on their own and without the support of the major players.
Maybe someone will come up with something brilliant and surprise me, but the same people have had the opportunity to come up with something new for years and haven't.
Luckily, the world is such that we don't only have two options. The world is full of options. Communicating what they are in teaching people how to use them is probably the best bet.
This reminds me the critics that Socrates have for Democracy, and is probably a good invitation to reflect in the history of power, economy and society and the problems of the world we are living right now!!
I've been before tempted to communicate with you, but I was something shy in asking. I'll be gladly attending your possible posts here or there, @Lextenebris!!
Best winds for every project!!
I'm admittedly a horrible, terrible person but I do occasionally manage to be interesting, and that goes a long way.
To what remains a mystery.
It's a pleasure to meet you, even in these terrible critical times, there's the possibility to find the good side!! :)