It sure is! I can't recall seeing this much energy and desire from an early stage community ever. I will have some work to do rebranding steempress, but when that's done we will finally be able to launch so much that has been in the pipelines for a while.
steempress was one out of three witnesses to code the Hive hardfork, so it then feels strange to still have a steem-basedname :P
There is a lot of momentum behind us right now. I fervently hope we carry that forwards. Now that Ned, Dan, Steemit, Inc., Justin Sun, etc. are out of the picture, we need to keep eyes on the prize and not revert to blaming anyone for anything.
I don't want to see this place devolve into the juvenile drama that often happened on Steem. I suppose it's inevitable that people will complain about "whales and witness' greed, etc." and some toxicity is just part of life. But I really feel hopeful that we can create a new-feeling space here, especially once the kinks are ironed out and we start onboarding lots of new users bringing new energy that don't know about all the baggage, haha.
That is pretty awkward for many blockchain services, the rebranding. It will be funny in the future if people are using Hive that know nothing about the past history asking "Why are all these accounts named with 'Steem'? What's that, anyways?" :-D
It sure is! I can't recall seeing this much energy and desire from an early stage community ever. I will have some work to do rebranding steempress, but when that's done we will finally be able to launch so much that has been in the pipelines for a while.
steempress was one out of three witnesses to code the Hive hardfork, so it then feels strange to still have a steem-basedname :P
There is a lot of momentum behind us right now. I fervently hope we carry that forwards. Now that Ned, Dan, Steemit, Inc., Justin Sun, etc. are out of the picture, we need to keep eyes on the prize and not revert to blaming anyone for anything.
I don't want to see this place devolve into the juvenile drama that often happened on Steem. I suppose it's inevitable that people will complain about "whales and witness' greed, etc." and some toxicity is just part of life. But I really feel hopeful that we can create a new-feeling space here, especially once the kinks are ironed out and we start onboarding lots of new users bringing new energy that don't know about all the baggage, haha.
That is pretty awkward for many blockchain services, the rebranding. It will be funny in the future if people are using Hive that know nothing about the past history asking "Why are all these accounts named with 'Steem'? What's that, anyways?" :-D
All the best rebranding!