In other words, it's easy to have control over forks, recovery mechanisms and other protocol changes when you have a proof of stake system where you hold 2.5x as much stake as the next guy, only a handful of people are involved in actual decision making and the vast majority of the users only interact with the blockchain through your centralized interface.
Yes, the steem network technically does have the potential for truly decentralized decision making, but we're not there yet (whether we ever will remains to be seen).
And until we are there, please don't try to sell the lack of true decentralization as some magic advantage over real distributed community decision making.
Our interface is opensource and many clones will start appearing. Steem is getting increasingly decentralized over time and its protocol will become increasingly stable. Your concerns are all temporary situations that all new systems face. The goal is to mature into decentralization.
Yeah that makes sense and I look forward to seeing it happen. I'm just saying, as it becomes less centralized, decision making and responding to unexpected events will definitely get a lot trickier.
That is certainly true. The last platform I created, BitShares, matured to a level of decentralization that could entirely outvote me. I am happy about that. As the platform matured it became more and more difficult to make changes, the same will be true for Steem.