I'm a scaredy cat! I have my followers and friends there and would like to protect those relationships. If I start getting downvoted heavily, I lose all that. There is a lot of good there!
I'm sorry you encountered such problems.
I am aware of those problems, and am becoming more aware of how insidious the control issues are. I hope that conversations with the controllers will ameliorate their controlling bents. I have had some productive conversations with the person involved in this specific case. He actually did stop downvoting an account that had great value to me. I like to think he heard me.
I totally understand. I thank you for commenting here. For me, it's beyond over with Hive. I don't want to be associated with a social media platform knowing what I know. Just wait for next drop and you'll see what I mean. Have a great day and thank you for your support.
That’s why I stayed quiet but you will feel better when you pull the plug and let go of the fear, it took me a while but by staying we are funding them to continue.
All healthy things change, are in flux. All spaces can be brought closer to a state of health. I'm one of the ever hopeful! I'm not exactly staying quiet, but I'm not being combative - I don't know enough. To oppose something bad can support it. All the anti-Russian sentiment is fueling war in eastern Europe now.
it's each to their own but I found to stay on that platform you had to be either careful what you said/ try to stay under a radar/ not be able to support those you care about getting bullied which, just makes a very toxic environment and inability to be authentic and make authentic connections. If ppl can still do that there then it's ok for them. I felt the same as you for a few years thinking I could just go under the radar enough to enjoy elements of it b ut eventually it becomes too much it might be for you at some point or maybe not time will tell.
Almost everything I post there is based on my feelings on the covid con, and other cons, even and maybe especially my freewrites. I am no longer in-your-face about my views after I started getting downvoted, yes. But I am still heard there, and have quite a few loyal followers who support my views as well as my posts. I'm very happy to have come here, where I can be totally open in my views. I only follow people who share my views here, and have learned a tremendous amount! Maybe if I had not found Blurt I would have left the other. I did leave steem and brought all my earnings there here.
personally I never posted anything about covid or any world affairs just art / etc it can be toxic there for many reasons. Anyway I would never push someone else to live their life the same way I do but I realised how much fear that platform held over me with an invisible net of just getting breadcrumbs as soon as I kicked it to the curb for good I felt completely free and amazing. I didn't really agree with @practicalthought before but now I do, it took leaving to see how we are just funding that handful of people to get rich just by posting there and engaging. It would be ok if it was a small group of people but they are the people that forked the platform and essentially run it, whilst pretending it's decentralised. But like I said each to their own with. it everyone should be allowed to do as they feel. I like steemit personally, the wox community is really nice, I never had an issue with steemit and felt free there after the hive cabal left.
That's a good point, that I am working to further enrich some whales, just like most of us in the world. Hive purports to be different, but is not. hm
if enough of us support this one eventually everyone will move, they are only not doing so now as they are getting more £ so willing to take the breadcrumbs to tow the line. The change over will come soon I strongly believe. Eventually everyone will get as sick of it as us lot did lol
I am making more USD curating here than I do curating on hive. I've started moving hive funds here. My posts don't make as much, true, but only because the entity I have had arguments with there regularly supports my posts. I guess this is what gives me hope. Then again, it could be a control measure.
I guess I have a different perspective as saw these guys doing it in 2017 and saw it leave steemit when they left steemit. I tried to do what you did for ages just head down, stay in touch with the communities I liked and had spent years building etc and just turn a blind eye to my posts getting downvoted if they went over a certain amount or turn a blind eye to everyone I liked on there getting taken to 0 on every post they made but I couldn't and then speaking out gets you 'punished'. The thing is if it was a small group the smaller people could still create their communities, like on blurt even if the huge whales hate you you can still build communities and help and support one another. It's not the same platform having a downvote function so misused just means they can manipulate people through fear and give them breadcrumbs to shut up/follow. You cannot be authentic there, you cannot have an opinion without being essentially deplatformed and unable to take part in trade. The only people we are helping on there is those whales to get huge amounts of money every month whilst keeping us in fear of them that If we speak out, or defend someone we like we will get wiped down even more as 'punishment'. I can't believe I stuck it out that long. Practical thought said he wasn't upvoting anyone properly who was supporting the hive platform by posting on it, I didn't agree with it at the time because I wanted to stay on both but recently it got more and more striking that staying on was just supporting them so I made sure to sabotage myself in a way I'll never go back unless those people leave. Like I said though I do believe in free choice and free will but we do have to take some responsibility for who we are funding in life, for me I support freedom of speech and freedom to be authentic so by funding a platform getting rich off suppressing others free speech I really shouldn't be supporting with my energy and time.
Wow....Can't believe all this was going on with me not having a clue for years. I avoided any kind of drama like the plague on there and never really broke above the pay grade until the price went to a dollar. That's when they came after me.
At this moment, I think the energy and momentum is about to go in our favor and with a little push it may go in our favor big time. I just hope we can make the most of it. I'm learning more and more how welcoming and free Blurt is. We can have this level of conversation without any demon creature being nasty verbally, or down voting and destroying our blogs just for speaking our minds.
People have to see your story. You've seen and experienced it all with these monsters.
They are obsessed with blurt anyways and read all these