I'm following steem since 2017, and now I'm understanding better the proposals and witness role on the network.

What happened with steem was prof that we need to check closer this part of the system. Centralized power is not a good idea.

And the Hive fork was the best think that happened and i followed it. Still have my steem account but Hive become my favorite.

Free speech vs downvote: IMHO is totally different. I dont agree with a lot of posts but don't down vote it. It's not a "dislike". I just don't upvote it.

I use downvote for bad content such as violence, plagiarism or when i realize that is not a original content. And sometimes i think that i should use it more often. 😆