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RE: STEEM without Steemit INC? Contingency plans?
Even though I am pretty new to the community, I have been informed enough to realize that Steemit without Steemit Inc's full support is a bad strategy, that didn't need to show itself.
As I think has been said before, steemit.com is really just a proof of concept (hence it being forever in beta). There are already several other, arguably better, interfaces. The blockchain will live on regardless of the survival of Steemit, Inc or at least there's no reason to believe it wouldn't. The code is open source and the witnesses still get to decide on implementing changes.
I understand that in practice it is currently Steemit, Inc. driving most of the development for the moment and it is better to change that now vs. being forced to later but I don't think it's the end of the world even if Steemit, Inc. were to go away tomorrow (which I don't expect even with the current difficulties).
It’s not that I don’t agree with what you wanna say, but without the full potential guidance of Steemit Inc, Steemit (the platform) is running in uncharted territory. What you say about open source and decentralization without Steemit Inc can be counter argued with the proposition that open source and decentralization was what they had in mind when Steemit Inc started off to make this platform better. Whether they would’ve kept this promise in the long-term is what I cannot guarantee. But certainly their support would’ve been invaluable.
Right now, it’s up to Steemians like us to take matters into our hands in propagating a better and decentralized future of the ecosystem.
Yes it is. Not being in any way prepared for Steemit Inc to go bankrupt, though, seems like an even worse strategy.