Humans are sentimental beings. I just watched The Lion King, now all spruced up with animations and gorgeous effects - an old story in a new jacket like we say in Dutch.
Do we like change? Sometimes. Most of the time we like the real thing, the original, the thing that made us fall in love is often better than the thing that comes after.
But then, we change ourselves too. When I arrived on Steem there was no worry on my mind. I just wanted to write content, make friends, get upvotes, and figure out how to get to Whale Status ASAP. (I never thought I'd actually get there but a girl needs goals).
Now that whole experience changed for me. I changed. I've learned more about crypto and economics and how humans need to gain more control over their lives and how crypto can support that.
In less than an hour Steem will change too - maybe it's growing with all my changes, maybe it's growing against my personal growth. I'm not sure yet. I'm not a very abstract thinker, I think I understand humans, and humans don't like negativity, so humans will not like getting downvoted - even though the theory behind downvotes might make sense.
I'm still not the heaviest downvoter, but I want to do my part - if it was possible to delegate my downvotes I'd do so immediately - not having to worry about it myself but still making sure my stake would be useful for the overall economics of Steem.
But then again: the downvotes are both a healthy, probably much disliked as well as just one isolated aspect of this whole HardFork. The SPS could be a good thing if used right, and even though those who never curated will not suddenly start manually curating (maybe autovoting certain favourite/well-performing authors, which I'd call a minor upgrade) I do believe it will help getting more people to power up.
Anyway, back to being sentimental: I'm not really longing for my early days on Steem. They were frustrating and I felt helplessly small and insignificant and there seemed to be a thing to learn every day. Also: literally all there was were Steemit and Busy. Maybe I'll get a bit sentimental about the last year, at some point, as for me it was a great time on Steem: my account grew, I learned a LOT, I met amazing people, and I was well-supported as an author/creator.
I'm not super worried about the after-HF-Steem, but I might miss aspects of pre-HF-Steem.
Many things will remain the same though. Us bickering, or celebrating, or wanting to meet up and get to know one another.
I'm personally going to focus most on the SPS as I want that 10% that we're allocating to Proposals from the community to end up in the best hands. Maybe lobby for votes, maybe just make sure the worst proposals are not going to go through.
@gtg wrote a very useful post to help fight against bad proposals, and both @steempeak (@asgarth) and @dmitrydao are already building nice interfaces to check the proposals on
- https://steempeak.com/proposals
- https://steemproposals.com/
Last but not least read this amazing post by @justineh that basically tells you everything you ever wanted or needed to know about the HardFork. She's good at that Normie Talk!
I'm just rambling. 33 minutes left. The countdown FOMO is real! Will we be able to quickly get back to posting and commenting? How will my pending payouts change in the next 7 days? Exciting times.
Hakuna Matata.
Return from A pre-HF21 ramble because without one I wouldn't be a good Steemian to Rosanne's Web3 Blog
