Hi! Did you know that steemit.com is now censoring users and posts based on their opinions?
 All the posts of these users are gone!
https://github.com/steemit/condenser/commit/3394af78127bdd8d037c2d49983b7b9491397296 

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```'roelandp', 'blocktrades', 'anyx', 'ausbitbank', 'gtg', 'themarkymark', 'lukestokes.mhth', 'netuoso', 'innerhive'```
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LMAO I totally put wtiness instead of witness derpaderp

I figured this would be your decission to Stay on steem, and you know I support your choice. I understand the wish to Stay and not see the place that has been our home for so long to just Die.
I think its many who feel split and comfused right now, do I Stay on steem? Do I move to hive? Should I be on both?
And only each and everyone can make that choice for themselves. 

Well written and you know you have my vote always ❤️ Stay you!

I greatly admire acting upon your convictions. I'll admit I got a little caught up in the brouhaha, though I always understood jsun's point of contention. I'd be pissed too if someone froze me out of my money because of... reasons. I didn't like how he responded to it was my biggest issue.  I viewed that as a treat to the integrity of the chain, but I understood why.

I'm glad to see you're still fighting what you believe in. That's inspiring.

I don't agree with everything - but I love the way you stated your beliefs. and I admire you seeing something you hope to achieve here.

I'm over on hive, and playing on uptrennd - but GINA keeps telling me about posts and I keep commenting here too hehehe

I was ready to sell it all - but this morning, I decided not to.

You made a really interesting point about the cloning of our stake here over onto hive.  I never really thought of if that way.... but now that I think about it - will others accuse us of having ninja-mined stake too?

We could say - well it was made public, and anyone had the same chance to buy in.... but... isn't that what people said about the Steemit ninja-mined stake?

huh.   

I do disagree with you about people not trying to work with him.  I know for a fact that offers were made to help him out behind the scenes.  Don't know why he didn't accept those offers, and really - it doesn't phase me.

steemit is his, and he can do whatever he wants with it.  Said that from the beginning.  and you know that - cuz we agreed on that.

but as far as posting here still... hmmm i don' tknow.  things have changed.  The reasons I left a while ago might no longer be an issue.. but i know that I dont' have to make a decision for the long haul - right this second.

For today - my steem wallet won't get dumped.  will i lose it all?  could be.  It's always a risk in the wild, wild west :)

but.... we'll see

love you J

L   :)

I love that last line of Whatever you choose to do, remember to be you! I've had a healthy dose of remembering who I am and I stand for as a person these last couple weeks. 

Going against the grain because you know it's right for you is brave. You've done a great job standing firm without stepping on anyone to get there.

I feel you. I'm kind of the same, but opposite. I kind of happened to come back on the scene after Sun had already bought Steemit. So I don't really have much to say about the buzz going on before the hardfork, but the explanation seemed to make sense even if it were a bit overboard in my opinion. I think had Justin Sun engaged us at that point, things would have been different. But that didn't happen so here we are. 

I do think that had the soft fork not happened, right or wrong, Steem would be very close to being Tron right now. I think he had **immediate** plans to token swap. That's why the public Tron accounts acted immediately to direct it. They didn't act without direction. The SF threw a monkey wrench into that. 

I think Ned sold him on the idea that he would be able to control the blockchain and do whatever he wanted with it. It's clear from his talks though that he didn't understand what Steem was. So maybe he has learned a lot from that and hopefully he will wait at least 6 months, now that he has something to prove. 

The abuse that we allow to happen here has always been a sticking point to me. I wish I could say it was only on the part of whales, but I can't. THE truth is that very few here are willing to step in when they know they are over powered. *So what someone's whole persona is getting decimated. I feel bad about it, but if I do anything, I'll be next.* I see it will remain the same with Justin Sun. It's just a matter of who is doing the abusing. 

I'll be migrating mostly to Hive. I'll still support the fam here...especially since Gina still notifies me when you jokers make a post, but I like the idea of starting the culture off with decentralization. This debate has opened the eyes of many regarding the failings of Steem which include the issues you brought up. I think we will have a better chance to build something different and unique over there. I'll probably keep what I've got powered up here, but I'll ship out my liquid for #Hive. 

Some say @Dan is interested in buying back Steemit inc. If that's the case I'd be all in again depending on how much progress we've made over there. 

I can see your point and frankly, I don't trust anyone right now - well, I trust you. But don't really know if I even want to play much on either of the chains.The last hardforks, the lousy author rewards and all the downvoting that has been going on has sucked the joy out of this. And fighting is not my favorite thing either...
going to take this to DM

I will say, I admire you for sticking to principles.
Fair Winds and Following Seas, Brother!!!

You are always who you are!! 3 cheers 😊

You already know how I felt when JS stepped in, even before the drama started
I agree, both sides hands are dirty.... but then is anyone's hands clean? 
Gotta just decide which 'dirty' you can live with 😆

I have thought about this over and over... I see both sides.... I understand both actions
It's a Damned if you do, Damned if you don't kinda situation eh

I agree with @moeknows.... 
JS came with a plan and then SF messed it up. 
I would probably have gone on a rampage too if someone had applied the freeze on me
But having said that, with great power comes great responsibility 
I wished he had made an effort to put his feelers out at grass-root levels 
I want to give him the benefit of the doubt but I will stop rambling

I did hit power down, ready for a clean start
Then I see some that are on my "friend" list still adamant about staying (why you gotta be like that?😜😂)
So, after reading this post and giving it some thought, ... sigh
Gotta figure this one out...

Yes, Witty!! Why? Why?! 😂🤣😂

As you know I didn't agree with the freezing of the funds. Hindsight is 20/20 and has the benefit of learning new details that could not otherwise be talked about while things were going on. 

The situation would have unfolded much like it did even without freezing funds, the timeline would have been different. I grew up in a business environment. For all his education and training, Justin is no business man. He's an impulsive two year old when it comes to maturity and response. 

He bought a d'app and got control of a blockchain, I'll give him that. If a community continues on Steem it will be despite him not because of him. 

All that and more is why I'm powering down. I hope you end up being right if for nothing else than it means you wont lose anything. 

While I have not completely given up on Steem and don't agree with everything that was done (i.e. attempting to cut Justin out of his stake), it comes down to this.

The primary appeal of Steem (in addition to the potential of making money of course) was its blockchain based nature. The appeal of that is decentralization and censorship resistance. While Steem never made it to being completely decentralized, Justin has made it worse, not better in that regard. In addition, he has shown himself to be pro-censorship by censoring certain posts and comments via the Steemit interface. 

While i haven't completely given up on Steem, those are the reasons Hive will be my new primary blockchain based social media platform. While Hive isn't perfect either (and nothing ever will be), I feel it is less centralized than a Justin controlled Steem and less centralized without the original ninja-mined stake that Steem had (yes, Hive has it's own ninja-mined stake by giving everyone (almost) what they had here but that still makes the coin more evenly distributed than steem was). And yes, Steemit isn't Steem but for all practical purposes, Justin currently controls the blockchain and has shown a willingness to exert that control.

You have my support @enginewitty, I want to talk to my friends in my team. They will surely support you as well