I never thought this would be a smooth ride. Now that the ride is bumpy, I don't regret it, but I'm also not 100% satisfied. I don't think anyone is. Our home, the Steem blockchain, was taken over, and we had to move hurriedly and left many things and people behind.

How many of our beloved friends on the Steem blockchain will decide to stay on centralized Steem? How many won't like Hive or Steem anymore and will look for greener pastures elsewhere?

Among the many things we're leaving behind, @steemchiller made a wonderful tool called steemworld.org, which many people used for various purposes. I used it every day to manage delegations, curations, rewards, to claim accounts and use them, and as an overall account-management dashboard. Sadly, he was in the list of people excluded for the Hive fork, and even before that he had expressed hesitation about moving. I can say with certainty that he won't be very motivated to come, and our beloved tool will have to be ported by someone else.

@purepinay helped me a lot, and she also hasn't shown her face regarding the move. Will she come or not? Will I be able to keep interacting with her? Who knows.

Like that, several things we took for granted won't be with us anymore. The convenience of trading on Binance might not be there for us in the future after the fiasco they supported. They voted for Justin Sun's witnesses, and Justin is still in contact with them. I'm sure he will be up in CZ's ear telling him not to accept Hive. Who knows what will happen? Hopefully, we'll have an abundance of exchanges now that everyone has gotten together to promote our new forked blockchain.

Our previous home blockchain

All witnesses from 1 through 20 support fork 22.5 - Justin Sun's centralization attempt.

Steemit front-page is now being centrally controlled by Justin Sun. Steemit has started downvoting and censoring, and there are no remains of the freedom we once had there. Thankfully we switched to Hive yesterday, or these efforts could have caused more problems.

I don't know what the future will bring, and I'm very hopeful, but at the same time I know it's not a painless separation, and we have to strive to make it more pleasurable by creating tools for Hive.

We are under new management: we are the new management. Now it's not a company cuddling us and guiding us. As I said in yesterday's post:

We removed the training wheels and we're left by ourselves. It will be a hard road but it will be very satisfying and better than anything yet!

Once we're free, things are harder, but they can be better than if we lived a sheltered life forever. Let's push forward and walk proudly, for now, we truly have our own blockchain.