RE: I am powering down - The extent of Hive censorship finally reached my awareness!

so be it, let it burn down then. if the network cannot survive the voluntary act of people leaving it would only be further proof that the whole system was kept alive through subsidies and propaganda only.
i may be wrong but it seems to me you act as if hive is the only place and option we will ever have, which I used to believe to some extent, but now realize is just a typical justification to keep things stale and stagnant by binding the energy of those who want a better system here where the BS keeps on happening.

as I eluded to in the other reply: an overriding downvote function cancelling a multitude of other people's voices and curation rewards through a single large stakeholder is NOT a decentralized self-regulation mechanism. These downvotes make it apparent that they are not about an educational discourse for everybody top learn from, but a power grab and maintaining that power by those so early they might as well have been part of the planning team from the beginning.

I liked this place because I have some dear friends on here, most of which have been terrorized out for sharing their views over the years, and I miss them. Just like FB this is not a place I want to build on. I stay here because I yet have some friends on here whose work I cherish and who I like to have a connection to, and because thus far I could speak sort of openly without being nuked - partly because I minced my words which I feel ashamed about.

I also felt it important to bring up this tired old topic again we are all discussing here to give others the choice to better reflect on what they want to do. Had I had all this knowledge last year I would have never put any capital into hive at 15 cents.

I may also come back and become hive maximalist if things do change but I am no longer waiting for the cartel's power to melt, I long for a new and better playing field which is where my energy will go. Still looking for the best case against Blurt also, I am under no illusion that everything is just perfect there. But a lot of things are way more in line with what I hoped Hive to be(come).

We may just need a NEW dancefloor entirely.

I am also aware of the negative effect of perpetually splintering a once large and interesting community over more and more networks. That's why I really like what @agorise at blurt.media does, finding a way to unite different communities from different blockchains rather than subsidizing this overly tribal mentality of "THIS ONE PLACE IS THE BEST".

After all, we want to facilitate more interesting and enlightening communication between people who choose to engage in that communication, ideally between different networks.

Your argument reminds me of those people saying I have to go vote for the "alternative", trying to argue that if I don't go vote at all then the really bad players will get even more power and the only way to take the power back is to increase our involvement in their slave system. That is just plain wrong and exactly the reason the system keeps committing its crimes - people policing each other due to one of the prevailing myths of our age - namely to coerce each other to stay in a rigged game hoping its rules and mechanics would somehow change from the inside.

Things are seemingly more quiet than they were, but all it really takes to ramp up the censorship on this platform again is a concerted effort by the cartel with the majority of the stake once they get their marching orders for the next false-flag, "pandemic" or whatever else the gang has prepared.

I'd prefer to already be in a place that is actually prepared to defend people's voices when shit hits the fan again. And it will hit the fan rather sooner than later.