RE: Why I am Not Powering Down Yet
People didn't leave, they were pushed away. Justin Sun opened the door and pushed people out. Have you been paying attention to what Steemit Inc has been doing under the helm of dear leader Sun? Censorship.
If competition is meant to be good, why go to the effort of censoring any mention of Hive from high-profile users? People have had their accounts blacklisted as you can see here. These users are the ones who were responsible for starting the competing fork Hive. Is this what you support? Do you support a company that instead of embracing competition, feels threatened by it and tries to pretend it doesn't exist and prevents mention of it?
Who in their right mind would come along and say, "This seems like a great place to build a dApp on?" Sure, Hive is a fork of Steem and at present, it is no different. But keep something in mind, Blocktrades are a highly capable company that contributed a lot to Steem and they were instrumental in its early success. Without Blocktrades, Steem probably would have been half as popular as it is. For such a long time, Blocktrades was the only exchange when Steem launched.
Let's be honest high power steemians have been lording over Steemit for such a long time and been censoring posts they don't like. The only difference now is there is a much bigger whale that is giving them a dose of their own medicine. Besides a lot of them have been hostile towards Steemit Inc and you expect them not to use their power to downvote them. Using the same excuse of whales before: you can get downvotes just because a whale does not agree with your content. Another logic of the whales from old steem: if you are more than willing to accept upvotes then you should be willing to take the downvote as well.
I don't agree with what Steemit Inc is doing but I am not surprised they are doing it since a lot those who were downvoted (censored) is practically burning Steemit Inc to the ground.
Honestly, under Justin and Tron management I think Steem blockchain will be better of. Why? Just look at all the dapps aggregator sites you will see. Tron has Samsung partnership, Opera partnership, DLive, Bittorent and more this Listed in practically in all relevant exchanges and Tron is just 1.5 years old.
How about Steem? 4 years old down. Are users increasing? Is it listed in more exchanges? The only relevant application beyond blogging was steemonsters which reached out to TRON for expansion. Now all of a sudden everything is bad on TRON.
Perhaps under Blocktrades this will all change but I am more inclined to think that the same old Steem will persist on Hive. With the type of behavior, they are showing I won't be surprised that sooner or later they will be at each other's throats for power and control.
I haven't been paying attention lately and I am glad I didn't... but I know it must be really bad.
A lot of big whales on that list I see...
I hope they make amends with blocktrades then.
Tron (formerly Steemit Inc) has CENSORED, on the Steemit Platform, not just down-voted like normal users would do for "censorship".
It's not an open platform. By waiting to power down, you're handicapping yourself and the value you've earned.
To be fair, you still have that duplicatative value on Hive, so you won't lose "everything". But you should know that Justin Sun (Tron) has indicated that their primary goal from acquiring Steemit Inc is to make money, liquidate Steem tokens and move Everything to Tron (at a fraction of the value).
You'd benefit by protecting your investment in Steem, powering down and moving that value into Hive.. but that's a pure opinion.. you're obviously welcome to stay here and do as you choose 👍