#steem

We are Making Good Progress

Dear Steemians,

We listened to the Steem community, and we always will. While we do not agree, nor obviously support the recent hardfork, we continue to find ways to show our commitment to developing our Steem ecosystem with the support of our great community. We love Steem and we are always supporting a united community since we believe that united we stand, divided we fall.

Steemit will always stay.

And yes, we did add the ability to hide posts that violated the terms of condition of steemit.com, those posts are still existing in the blockchain but not showing in steemit.com website, as we need to support our content and the community's content. Would any commercial website support a post that encourages all users to migrate to another one? No. That would not be in the best interest of the community and the Steem ecosystem.

All this being said, we are fully committed to supporting witnesses that vow to protect all Steemians’ stake. We will support any witnesses who publicly announce their promise to secure accounts, as well as update to SF 22.5.

Examples of these actions include the following community members which we have already voted for.

@triple.aaa: https://steemit.com/witness-category/@triple.aaa/triplea-witness

@steem-dragon: https://steemit.com/steem/@steem-dragon/steemdragon

@matreshka: https://steemit.com/steem/@matreshka/matreshka-vash-russkii-witness

@zzan.witness: https://steemit.com/witness-category/@zzan.witnesses/make-an-entrance-steemzzan-witness

@Future.witness: https://steemit.com/delegations/@steemba/open-letter-from-dapps-to-justinsuntron

@steemhunt: https://steemit.com/delegations/@steemba/open-letter-from-dapps-to-justinsuntron

We also withdrew some of the vote of 11 temporary witnesses out of 20 and power downed @happylife123 and @onestepaday and will continue to do so with all temporary witnesses. Eventually we will put governance back in the hands of the community as soon as possible.

We will also be delegating Steem Power back to some of the projects decided on by the Delegation Committee and we will have a more frequent and transparent process of delegation. We would like to reassure you that we are committed to Steem for the long-term and plan to bring more value to Steem than even before. Behind the scenes, please be assured that we are working around the clock to make this a success, and create a path forward by returning governance back to normal within the next two weeks. We have a plethora of resources and a world class team that is dedicated to working on Steem and making it become the best decentralized social network we all envision.

The Steemit Team

Comments · 110

@tonybad(63)· 1409d
Still active ?
@the.shoa(25)· 1630d
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@therightcantmeme(25)· 1630d
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@atma.love(71)· 2348d
@steemitblog Will you also be communicating (two way) with the Hive community through your account here on Hive and on the comment posts (like this one)?

It would be a) good to know if you are so i have achannel to communicate with you, and b) it will potentially be good for both Steemians and Hiveians (and remember Hiveians are still Steemians even if they choose to stop posting on Steem - they (we - includes me) still have Steem Power (shares) in Steem.

I would also love to share with you about Matrix-8 multi-level governance platform. If you deeply examine, discuss and deliberate about the potential of using a Matrix-8 subway platform for at least helping get consensus from Steemians about key governance decisions, then Steem could lead the way in the Blockchain world, and help lead the way to worldwide peace and abundance for all.

Please take this baby i am leaving on your doorstep (in this case your Hive doorstep - i will also post it on Steem later), and take care of it, nuture it and who knows how it will grow.

Find out more here: https://peakd.com/c/hive-153630/created (on Hive) or here https://steemit.com/trending/hive-153630 (on Steem).

Much love from me to The Steemit team, including @justinsunsteemit

Namaste Atma
@tuck-fheman(75)· 2348d

Would any commercial website support a post that encourages all users to migrate to another one? No.

Like Twitter does? Or like Facebook does? Or like Instagram does? Or like ... every other social media site in the world does (except for Steemit of course). #censorship
@tuck-fheman(75)· 2348d
@justinsunsteemit ...

@steemians is for sale. @steem-nation is for sale. @steemit-nation is for sale. @steem-news is for sale. @steemit-news is for sale.

#make-me-an-offer-i-cant-refuse #bulk-pricing-available
@tuck-fheman(75)· 2348d
@justinsunsteemit ...

@steemians is for sale. @steem-nation is for sale. @steemit-nation is for sale. @steem-news is for sale. @steemit-news is for sale.

#make-me-an-offer-i-cant-refuse #bulk-pricing-available
@maxsieg(57)· 2348d
remove your own witness votes, dont think we stupid! actually too late we move to hive in 9 minutes :D
@arcange(79)· 2348d

We are Making Good Progress 😂
@rmach(72)· 2348d
@santigs(71)· 2348d
It was nice meeting you, but as with relationships, sometimes you just need to say goodby. All the best keeping your rules in place :)
@beggars(71)· 2348d
It is too late. Don't you get it? You had a chance to do right by the community. You were given many opportunities to explain yourself with townhalls and discussions with witnesses and the community. Nobody wanted a hard fork, nobody wanted it to end this way. But, you gave the community no choice. Now, you have to live with your own actions.

Sure, some will stay. Many are leaving. Your reputation and brand is tainted, Steem is a dead project walking. This post is 12 days too late.
@jacobpeacock(74)· 2348d
There is a saying that goes like this: A jackass can walk a thousand miles but that does not make it a horse.
@summertooth(74)· 2348d
@bil.prag(76)· 2348d
we did add the ability to hide posts that violated the terms of condition of steemit.com

9.4. Transactions. All proposed Steem blockchain transactions must be confirmed and recorded in the Steem blockchain via the Steem distributed consensus network (a peer-to-peer network), which is not owned, controlled, or operated by us. The Steem blockchain is operated by a decentralized network of independent third parties.
@lextenebris(64)· 2348d

Would any commercial website support a post that encourages all users to migrate to another one? No. That would not be in the best interest of the community and the Steem ecosystem.

If we are actually comparing your actions to reality – yes, yes they would. In fact, they do on a common infrequent basis. One of the most rapidly shared kinds of post on Facebook and Twitter are the ones that seriously argue with great and abiding passion that fellow users should migrate somewhere else.

And anyone who has spent more than 15 minutes in a social media network knows that to be the case.

See, the solution to what you, I, or anyone else might think of as "bad speech" is "more speech," not "no speech." It's your job to make a really good argument in support of your platform which replies to the arguments which you consider to be not in the best interests of the community and the Steem ecosystem.

And honestly, it's not like they make it hard for you.

Now, there's always the possibility that you will turn around, provide excerpts of those posts, explain why you think certain pieces of content are against the terms of service, and actually make your case – but I don't expect it. You just like I don't expect the people who are advocating for Hive to explain how it is that trading one desperate for another is in my best interest as a creator.

Don't spray it in the air and tell me it's raining. That's insulting. I don't like to be insulted. I definitely don't like to be insulted when there is an absolute raft of other social media platforms to move to share my content. You should treat me, like all creators, as partners in making you butt loads of money.

Shall we try again?
@appalachain(59)· 2349d
1. I don't think I know anybody that actually uses the steemit.com front end anymore. Maybe a handful.
2. Fork off.... It's to little to late. Put your witnesses back in for all I care. In about 12 hours, I'm washing my hands of this crap, and I have no intention of coming back. That PR bullshit don't work on anybody with half a brain. You'll learn when steem has the exchange value of Tron. Have fun with that.
@manniman(69)· 2349d
What a joke, you‘re a joke now.
@roundbeargames(73)· 2349d
steemit is now a chinese phishing site.

DO NOT LOG IN OR SEND ANY OF YOUR KEYS TO CHINA!
@nonameslefttouse(77)· 2349d
Dear Steemit

By the time you read this, I will be dead.

You said words again today better left unsaid. How can I ever believe you after being misled?

You have hearts made of lead. Your witnesses ass cheeks are spread.

You lost a good one today because of this thread. I had to die, because you're fucked in the head.
@r0nd0n(65)· 2349d
I just want to be the first here to thank you @justinsunsteemit. Thank you for fucking up so bad, that a fork was not only viable, it has the chance to do better than the original.
@namiks(77)· 2349d
Go fuck yourselves.

Fortunately we'll all be free of your fucking tyrant and censorship over at hive.io
@overkillcoin(71)· 2349d
You dumb bitches! Time to fly to #H1ve :)
@diamond-head(51)· 2349d
Now steem fully centralized by justin sun it not good to use and community leaving on steem network and how you say steem community. Hive is the community controlled true blockchain.
@michealb(67)· 2349d
lol
@moominmamma(32)· 2349d
@forexbrokr(75)· 2349d

And yes, we did add the ability to hide posts that violated the terms of condition of steemit.com, those posts are still existing in the blockchain but not showing in steemit.com website, as we need to support our content and the community's content. Would any commercial website support a post that encourages all users to migrate to another one? No. That would not be in the best interest of the community and the Steem ecosystem.

Can we talk about Tron?
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@derangedvisions(81)· 2349d
Fuck you and fuck everyone that is still at SteemitInc. All of those with backbones have left. Justin Sun has come in and singlehandedly screwed over an entire community and all that everyone has worked for. He has turned the greatest decentralized blockchain into nothing more than a centralized piece of shit that is following in the footsteps of Tron. The community is excited for Hive and you want to censor the community for that. This isn't China where you can dictate what people say and do. So fuck you Justin Sun. Eat a bag of dicks.
@gtg(76)· 2349d
Shame.
@felt.buzz(76)· 2349d
And if we needed just one more reason to leave you guys just gave it to us.

Steemit is decaying and the stench is beginning to taint Steem

We are doing the right thing.

#HIVEisALIVE
@calculate(25)· 2349d
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@steevc(80)· 2349d
So you admit your censorship. So much for freedom on the Steem blockchain. If you could make a good case for people to stay you would not need to do this, but Justin has shown his contempt for Steemians. I have no wish to 'fuck him'. Your witnesses are not supported by the community. Prepare for a great exodus and for the Steem token to tank. I do not even care that my Steem will lose value.

Goodbye.
@d0zer(61)· 2349d
LOL.
@sgt-dan(66)· 2349d
You, young man, give the entire Cryptosphere a bad name! Your actions have caused more FUD concerning the adoption of cryptocurrency by the mainstream populace than any other thing, ever.

I hope you are proud of yourself! The Rebel Alliance (AKA Hive) are off to our new base.
@valued-customer(75)· 2349d

"While we do not agree, nor obviously support the recent hardfork..."

I think you mean the HF about to be undertaken.

"...we did add the ability to hide posts..."

You have deprecated the purpose of Steem by this action, and proved your hostility to freedom and the decentralization of governance that belies the words of this OP, and every assertion of support for freedom you have ever made in the past. Your rhetoric clearly is nothing of relevance, except as an attempt to fool anyone stupid enough to believe what you say, as your actions directly impose censorship and complete centralization of governance imposed on your hapless subjects.

Tomorrow I will be free of you, and your base aggrandizement of wealth and power that degrades society for your personal benefit. I could not more aptly state my personal sovereign rights and freedom than by moving to Hive. May you enjoy complete ownership of every Steem that exists, or ever will - because without a market besides yourself, it will have no value at all.

Just like your words.

Bye.
@netuoso(72)· 2349d
Hah! I am sure you have heard the buzz. We don't really care what you do with Steem now.

Enjoy your dead chain @justinsunsteemit @elipowell and various @steemit gang.
@fracasgrimm(61)· 2349d
Wow. After reading some of the comments, it seems the lines have been drawn. I was looking at this as those who go and those who stay can still be in good standings. I hope that will be the outcome. I would only wish HIVE the best of luck and I will follow all my fav people who go there. Maybe ya'll can return the favor for some of us who will play the band on the titanic role here. ~~RESPECT~~
@martie7(62)· 2349d

We are Making Good Progress

As well as the Hive. Goodbye, Justin!
@torrey.blog(59)· 2349d
#NotMyPresident
@eirik(69)· 2349d
Bullshit.
@ocupation(71)· 2349d
Wow @steemhunt, didnt expect you guys to be traitors... where can i dump my tokens???
@jackmiller(68)· 2349d
@lukestokes(77)· 2349d
Who are some of these "community" witnesses you speak of and how long have they been part of the "community"? Why would you trust them to run the blockchain in a decentralized way?
```
@matreshka
Age
2 days
March 2020

@steem-dragon
Age
2 days
March 2020

@zzan.witnesses
Age
39 days
February 2020
```
In many ways they look very similar to the sock puppets you have in place.

Can you clarify who the world class team is since the Steemit, inc employees quit? How well does that team know the Steem codebase? What experience do they have with it?

violated the terms of condition of steemit.com

Can you clarify what section was violated? I can only think maybe 14.1.1:

14.1.1. Use of our Services in any manner that could interfere with, disrupt, negatively affect, or inhibit other users from fully enjoying our Services, or that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the functioning of our Services in any manner;

But that seems like quite a stretch.

united we stand, divided we fall.

United we stand on the Hive blockchain. Divided you fall on the Steem blockchain which you yourself destroyed with your sybil attack.
@flugschwein(62)· 2349d
Ah, this feels so much like democracy. Just like in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Love it. So sad I'll be migrating to HIVE.
@pundito(70)· 2349d

Would any commercial website support a post that encourages all users to migrate to another one? No.

If you want users to stay you need to convince them by being better than the others. Censorship is a sign of weakness, desperation.

It's over, Justin. You just don't want to accept it yet.
@trumpman(82)· 2349d
Too little, too late. Suck a dick
@gentleshaid(75)· 2349d
Another face saving post? Interesting times on the steem blockchain
@guiltyparties(74)· 2349d
Stop wasting our time and yours. This is pathetic.
@ew-and-patterns(71)· 2349d
Pathetic try to cover up what you did.

As soon as the community witnesses kill their witness server on steem and move to HIVE, Jsun will hardfork an instant powerdown for himself and the exchanges only, so he can dump the ninja mine for as much money as possible. He will run, get his money back and never look back.

If he doesn't, the SEC will deem steem a security, which will make it worthless. So either way, it will be worthless.

By the way, everyone will be dumping STEEM to buy more HIVE. Only noobs sell HIVE when it first enters the exchanges.
@joshman(74)· 2349d
GFY
@firstamendment(58)· 2349d
How is it putting governance back in the hand of the community when you hand pick the witnesses? Your CCP propaganda machine doesn't work in the USA. It might work in collectives like south Korea and China where people can't think for themselves nor question authority; where they can never question daddy and always look up to Big Brother-Oh...yeah one child policy in China-the CCP is big Brother. American may be heading their rapidly, but blockchains are becoming a last refuge of rigid individualist against CCP styled tyranny.

The SFPD has been contacted for your crimes Justin Sun. You screwed with the wrong people, and you are about to get F***ed by big black Bubbah. I don't think your girlie behind can handle that level of destruction; you'll be wearing adult diapers the rest of your life if you are lucky.

The death of the steem chain is imminent by your own incompetence.
@stellabelle(76)· 2349d
审查对于Steemit或任何其他分散式平台永远都行不通。这是您犯的最大错误。我们不是中国。我们不会审查反对的想法。你迷路了，我的孩子。要查看未经Tron审查的帖子，请使用steempeak.com
@neoxian(72)· 2349d
Fuck you.
@fredrikaa(74)· 2349d
Congratulations. You just permanently deleted the main value proposition Steemit has promoted for years. What happened to proof of brain?! Since the beginning, you've promoted the idea of allowing community and stakeholders to collectively judge what content should be Trending and receive attention. The accounts and posts you've now blocked received overwhelming support from the community, and you just made the decision to ignore community consensus and remove it. Thus deleting everything Steemit has worked to promote and found its future ideas for SMTs on.

And what's the idea of pointing to what a commercial website would do? The whole point of Steem/Steemit has always been to provide something different. It's funny to see the new owners themselves state what others have said as a joke, that you may as well not use a blockchain at all and just run a normal database if you're just going to ignore what's on the blockchain whenever it suits you.
@udezee(71)· 2349d
You guys are blocked heads, you know nothing even whaleshares never censored posts. Damn.. You went so low.. Dirty low with this move...
@freebornangel(72)· 2349d
Lol, whoever edited this needs spanked. Eventually, and, as soon as possible, do not belong in the same sentence. Its just bad for hiding the lying when you expose the lie in the same sentence that you lied in.

Which is it? Eventually, or asap? Because those imply very different timelines.
@udabeu(72)· 2349d
I am soo disappointed reading theese ?"YOUR"? words . But i will stay. Very disappointed ! Very very disappointed ! Very very very disappointed ! I do not like split toung words. Stop stop stop !
@revisesociology(82)· 2349d
Double speak authoritarian centralist bullshit.

I honestly thought 1984 didn't apply in the online world, then you took over Steem. What a total fuck up you've made of it.

Best of luck censoring these comments.

Something else for you to react to in a knee-jerk way.
@pfunk(73)· 2349d
Fuck off with your ass kissing/sockpuppet witnesses and censorship of Steemit.

https://steempeak.com/censorship/@mahdiyari/censorship-on-steemit-tron-episode-1

Your words are worth nothing.
@aggroed(80)· 2349d
I tender my resignation from the delegation committee. I don't support the censorship, nor the sock puppets, nor the human puppets, nor the steemit stake voting, nor the name calling, nor the lies to exchanges, nor the lies from the exchanges, nor really any action taken by steemit/justin/tron since Feb 14. Another sad day for Steem. Your only courses of action seem to be bribes, insults, censorship, and failure.
@ash(74)· 2349d
DPoS is something you can not centralize, and it shows. Good luck with your steem bag
@krystle(70)· 2349d
In two weeks time there will be no community left... let alone still willing to support your new puppet government, it is no improvement over the sock puppets and shows your continued ignorance of what decentralisation means.

Hiding the posts on steemit.com cracks most steemians up, as hardly anyone uses your shitty front end - it just confirms yet another massive issue - censorship is now endorsed by steemit on the steem blockchain, that goes against the fundamental principals most if not all steemians hold dear.... lmao you just encouraged those still holding out hope to jump ship with the rest of us, not to mention the free publicity you're sending our way.
@lordbutterfly(80)· 2349d

Eventually we will put governance back in the hands of the community as soon as possible.

... until that community says something they arent supposed to say.

You are fucking despicable. I thought calling you guys communists and CCP was a "edgy burn" but you are the crypto embodiment of the CCP and everything all of us here wanted to escape...

You disgust me.
@ausbitbank(74)· 2349d
- What terms of service did all 19 of those posts violate ?
- Whats with the extra blacklist server in China ?
- Who is the Steemit Team exactly ?
- Why do you think we would believe these fresh sockpuppets are any better then the old ones ?
- What will you do with the 100k Steem the socks have made so far ?
It's waaaaay too little, and waaay too late
@foxon(61)· 2349d
Guess steemit will need to find a way to censor the comments, now. Good ideas should win. Trying to keep your user base ignorant because you have an inferior product is no way to compete. You should be embarrassed
@toofasteddie(77)· 2349d
downvoted, obviously
@mmmmkkkk311(64)· 2349d
Please remove free downvotes, I want to turn on my bidbot and get back to vote selling business. Let's make Steem great again!
@bryan-imhoff(69)· 2349d
I assume Steemit Inc. and Tron will cease promoting their ecosystems on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, and the rest of the internet as you operate competing products and obviously feel it would be unethical to promote there.

Steem will die under your leadership. Long live Hive!
@zaxan(67)· 2349d
You're completely a joke.
@swelker101(67)· 2349d
The terms of service also states that ownership of Steemit will not interfere with governance.. But here we are.
@geekgirl(80)· 2349d
So you are not planning to dump millions of Steem to the market?
@captainklaus(66)· 2349d
Too little, toooooo late. You had 4 years... now, I'm sorry to say: Suck it up.
@sathyasankar(65)· 2349d
Steem is on its way to $0.00.. @justinsunsteemit has already proved that he is a liar as well as a chameleon. We don't believe in you. Hive on!
@zipporah(64)· 2349d
This is simply unfortunate confirmation that our once-beloved decentralized blockchain has been overtaken by privatized interests (perhaps it always was.) To be clear – there is absolutely nothing 'decentralized' about censorship. PERIOD.

I had admittedly been undecided about how I might proceed after tomorrow's HF, but this post has made my choice for me. I've given much to this chain, but...it's time to accept my losses and move on. How very disappointing.
@skepticology(58)· 2349d

Would any commercial website support a post that encourages all users to migrate to another one?

Yes, it's normal for social media platforms to allow competitors to create accounts and advertise their services, and actively censoring these posts is antithetical to the value proposition of this blockchain.
@justatouchfey(63)· 2349d
You're working so hard and yet all you manage to do is push us farther and farther into pro-Hive because of how vacuous this all is. You'll put the governance in the hands of people who are letting you pay them off to agree with this bullshit.

https://steempeak.com/steem/@themarkymark/steemit-inc-now-censors-posts-from-the-ui
@oliverschmid(70)· 2349d
I like your kind of humor.
@lacking(69)· 2349d
Oh, hey a small list of people who aren't getting any Hive tokens... Bahahahaha
@engrave(74)· 2349d
Good job with that quick condenser update. You can now censorship any uncomfortable post.
@edouard(68)· 2349d
You’re supposed to decline payout.
@definethedollar(75)· 2349d
Never fear! Funds are #SNAFU!
@brianoflondon(77)· 2349d
Will you be putting unfavourable comments in our censorship blocked list on Steemit? Fortunately I'm writing this from hive.blog right now.
@rafalski(66)· 2349d
Suck my dick.

ps Learn what blockchain is.
@moeknows(67)· 2349d
On a decentralized blockchain, you most certainly allow for posts urging folks to migrate somewhere else. Good ideas don't have to be enforced.

ETA: If you don't want people to leave, build a better blockchain. Newsflash: Centralized blockchain is not better. Tron is also not better.
@marc5(55)· 2349d
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@stellabelle(76)· 2349d
Censorship is now happening on Steemit.com To all community members: to see all the posts uncensored, use Steempeak.com. Here's the details of the censorship: https://steempeak.com/steem/@themarkymark/steemit-inc-now-censors-posts-from-the-ui

검열은 Steemit 또는 다른 분산 플랫폼에서 작동하지 않습니다. 이것은 가장 큰 실수입니다. 우리는 중국이 아닙니다. 우리는 반대 생각을 검열하지 않을 것입니다. 넌 길을 잃었 어 Tron의 검열 된 게시물을 보려면 steempeak.com을 사용하십시오.

审查对于Steemit或任何其他分散式平台永远都行不通。这是您犯的最大错误。我们不是中国。我们不会审查反对的想法。你迷路了，我的孩子。要查看未经Tron审查的帖子，请使用steempeak.com
@drakos(70)· 2349d
Great to live in denial.
@bluefinstudios(72)· 2349d
Interesting... Facebook does not hide posts about it's competitors. many other important and relevant social media do not hide form competition.

Sorry, but CENSORSHIP is not Decentralized.

Can you show me where in the TERMS hide posts that violated the terms of condition of steemit.com
@shadowspub(77)· 2349d
you do realize that censoring what appears on steemit.com first guarantees those who remain will STOP using steemit.com and second will in fact MOVE to the other chain exclusively

NOT A GOOD MOVE for the community. For any community.
@stellabelle(76)· 2349d
@demotruk(75)· 2349d

Would any commercial website support a post that encourages all users to migrate to another one? No.

Yes, lots of websites have allowed this. Digg.com. Reddit.com. Myspace.com. Friendster, among many others.
@okean123(66)· 2349d
Suck a dick

Comments · 110

@justinsunsteemit ...

@justinsunsteemit ...

DO NOT LOG IN OR SEND ANY OF YOUR KEYS TO CHINA!

Dear Steemit

Shame.

GFY

It's waaaaay too little, and waaay too late

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