As many of you know, we all have been trying so hard to fight for STEEM in the past few weeks. We have tried to assist with de-escalation by helping Justin Sun and Tron see clear paths to an end to hostilities on several occasions through multiple meetings.
We were not ready to completely give up fighting for the place we considered home. That is until yesterday.
One of the most important things about Steem was that its decentralised consensus witness pool provided and guaranteed free speech to our users. A critical ingredient and sales point for 3Speak.online which is catering to the growing market of censored users who are seeking a new home after being removed or demonetised from traditional, centralised media sites.
Over the last 4 weeks we were often sleepless, staying up long hours to demonstrate and agree multiple action plans with the Tron team that would have helped return the Steem blockchain to a decentralised consensus. Each time we reached a way forwards, the plan was rendered untenable the next morning following a new set of overnight hostile actions by Tron to further centralise the chain.
The moment we decided our efforts were completely in vain was when we noticed that posts critical towards Tron and posts that talked about the new Hive blockchain, were being censored from the steemit.com front end yesterday morning._
The Steem blockchain's biggest stake holder was and still is censoring content en-masse, whilst simultaneously centralising the blockchain by voting its own 20 witnesses (most likely all running on the same server) into consensus. Not only does this make STEEM a potential security, something the community has long been able to avoid, but it makes a mockery of the efforts of the community to make this chain the most amazing place on the net over the last 4 years.
This also presents a major problem for Dapps such as 3speak.online, that rely on free speech as one of their core reasons for using blockchain technology in the first place. Imagine running a video platform that is specifically catering to the new market of censored creators leaving mainstream platforms by leveraging the beautiful technology that the Steem blockchain represented, and then having those same creators find out that they could be censored in exactly the same way as in the place whence they had left.
We are sure you can understand that the current situation on Steem puts our dapp in a very difficult position. It is impossible for 3Speak.online to continue to use Steem as our base blockchain.
We fought and fought for a way to keep our Steem blockchain decentralised. It is with a heavy heart we regretfully say that we are leaving.
Luckily, there is another solution....
WE ARE MOVING
3Speak will be leaving STEEM with our heads held high from having done all we could in this battle. Although we regret that we could not get everyone on the same page but at the same time we are so excited and optimistic to port 3Speak to move with the Steem community to the new blockchain HIVE as early as possible. We have been testing today and it looks like all key features are running.
Thanks @wehmoen and the amazing technical team working on the new chain for your great effort on this.
Censorship goes completely against the values of 3Speak and the biggest stakeholder in Steem demonstrated that the Steem chain can be centralized and that it is willing to censor content that the community itself has voted up.
Right now our devs continue to test the 3Speak application on the new chain and we project that all items will be fully operational in next day or two barring any technical issues. Having said that, the application is now posting to the new chain, so please feel free to continue to post your valuable content
We want to take this opportunity to thank @blocktrades & many others for stepping up and working so hard on the new chain to preserve the ethos of STEEM, it is certainly making a HUGE buzz!!!! Let's make it a bigger and better community.
We would also like to wish the best of luck to our few remaining colleagues and Dapp projects who will remain on Steem. We will miss you and hope that our paths will cross again in the world of blockchain and decentralisation
HIVE ON
(note: a 100% beneficiary from this post goes to the Proposal System here on Hive)
Sooo pleased to hear that @threespeak is here in Hive! No doubt a gerzillion back end issues. Just today in northern Thailand, my little herbal business wanted to promote our self-care products online, only to discover FB is blocking that content now. Holy crap!!! I'm going to make a VIDEO on 3speak about that tomorrow, I hope. Doing some research first.
Appreciating all the efforts of SO MANY COMMITTED PEOPLE to the concept of free speech. It matters more than the sheeples will ever know.
Much gratitude.
This is exactly why we do what we do! a pleasure to have you onbaord!
I think the sheeple are starting to understand now!
You guys were a voice for reason during the negotiations. Calm cool and reasonable. Awesome project with and awesome team!
I wish you all the success in the world and I fully support you!
Good to see you on board!
I voted 100% because of the nifty magicians wand instead of the Hive logo next to the Post rewards on peakd.com that makes it easy to see that beneficiary is set to the dao 🧙♂️🐝
and I'm upvoting your comment cos I learned from it what that little snappy wand is for. I hadn't quite got to hovering there yet.... :) Nice one.
It is your flag, you can use it proudly! Thank you for everything you stand for.
Great move! Since no one can even mention you or your site without written permission!
Everyone, don't forget - you can't just go around promoting each other or other websites! You have to get WRITTEN permission.
Steemit.com ToS Update
https://steemit.com/tos.html
Well spotted! So I guess that also means that on Steemit now there can be no outlinks or promo of Facebook, twitter, insta, telegram, whatsapp... hmmm weird idea of control.
Opps.. Thought I deleted this on Hive. I only meant to post it on STEEM... Sleep addled brain couldn't tell the difference between steempeak & peakd! LOL
But yeah, it's just a way for Justin or Steemit Inc to censor certain accounts. I don't think it will be used otherwise.
Great move. Exciting time ahead.
Great... I haven't explorer 3speak so far. Now it is time to do that..
Let's rock this! 🤘
Glad you made the switch looking forward to using threespeak in the future here on Hive.
Glad youre here!
You did all you good, as you said 'heads held high'!
Don't forget to get some sleep at some point.
My 3speak video not showing on Hive ?
Awesome news! Thanks so much.
#hiveisalive that's it...
Sometimes a fight is to no avail. Everything has its upside, happy to see you here and I'm looking forward to posting my first videos.
Thank you for all the hard work. Much appreciated :>)
What is known as Swiss Banking secrecy is hard for many to grasp and it's also the reason why ether is based here. The country tries hard to implement the idea of decentralisation with both mixed opinions but a clear roadmap on providing basic incomes to all citizens really being testing ground. With the IMF here and also BCBS, it's clear to many in the financial sector that the People‘s Republic of China has an authoritarian political system controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Come on? From a centralised point system with subjective FIAT value in an international resource and physical market backed by colonial wealth that used to be gold from Africa and India? Now a facial recognition and Autocracy coming to our Hive? Hell NO!
Dude I totally love what just happened and You, the witnesses and @blocktrades rock! I love Ether, but the Hive is truly what I believe in. I always thought that the steem dev fund could have flown into a lot of awesome project that were proposed. Maybe now that can finally happen?
Trying to keep a humble opinion because Dan, you really schooled us all on what was going on, and that very concisely. Surely I can speak for many(the hive) that we are very grateful for this. I really hope that 3speak will continue on it's path, because yes, I am one of those people who would die for free speech and for anyone to state his opinion before his or her death. Orwell 1984 (there is no violent speech). I consider Ether and Hive to be the greatest revolution since Brettonwoods, it's collapse in 1971, the financial crisis 2008 and Basel 3 last year. At times I feel the world is ignorant about what is really going on with the financial system living on this island in Europe. My humble Opinion is that I hope 3speak will work on decentralised Nodes or IPFS once they gain traction and decentralise from CDN's.
Glad to see you here, and hope any difficulties are easily surmounted.
I have a question that was bothering me for a while before Hive became available. About a week ago, 3speak videos began never ending on Steem. When the OP's video was over, another 3speak video was simply appended to it. I noted that when I had to leave for several hours leaving one such video rolling, when I returned such appendices were still rolling upon my return.
I've seen one 3speak video since the Hive transition, and this did not seem to be happening anymore. Am I just insane? Did this really happen, and if it did is it going to happen again? Is it over?
Anyway, thanks for your brave words defying powerful institutions attempting to exert total control of everyone everywhere by completely controlling the content of our minds. Means of speaking the true facts we understand to one another remain our sole barricade defending us from susceptibility to death and suffering the lies of overlords subject us to.
You are providing a wall, and we voluntarist civilians must man it, to defend the freedom of our posterity from the slavering predators that seek the power of our sons and daughters for themselves.
Thanks!
in HIVE we trust
Glad that you have been for the community. Also I would say Peakd.com interface is way better looking and just seems smoother. What I meant is that changes like that will be positive for bringing in more people.
Word!
I'm glad to see 3Speak here in Hive and brought your values with it ~ a true "decentralized" app.
Namaste!
Hey @Threespeak I would like to ask a question.
If its possible can you set a Language when you upload a video called Bulgarian.
Because I`ve been working on growing and trying to bring awareness in the Bulgarian community about Steem now the new Hive blockchain.
Thank you!
Namaste