I 100% agree. While Justin was the worst of the two evils, the witnesses weren't much better. Hell, even after the patriotic voting starting, I'll bet they didn't even get a 1/3 of the popular vote.
A Representative Republic is not Decentralized and to claim anything other than that is an outright lie.
So, no one can say they did the will of the community. Now only the developers control a huge amount of money with control over releasing it.
We need better transparency and community forum to decide our path going forward especially funding.
Your article is well laid out and extremely detailed. It would be nice if the current 'leaders' would communicate even half as well as you did here.
Yup they keep using the wordd decentralize and community - er welcome to the Democratic People's Republic of Steem, not to be confused with the Former Socialist Republic of Steem.
Some of the leaders here aren't policy makers and have no experience in neogitiation. Many know computer stuff well, some know investing and crypto well. Maybe theybeven knowncustomer service and online community management. But Steem is not a service, nor is it just an online community.
I don't even think what happened here is that bad. But now that we are safe and spund, I want to keep it this way. Debate is the sign of a healthy government.
Doesn't GitHub, where all these beautiful toys are placed, belongs to Microsoft?
Yup, it looks like GitHub is owned by microsoft. I doubt they own any rights to the code, but Bill Gates could go all ned-like or Justin Sun on us.