Hah! Flapping. Remember, the main reason for DIV is the abject failure of Stinc to deliver anything they promise. Not to mention they have now also shut me out of the development process entirely.
@benjojo made me realise that I am abandoning the community, which is inconsistent with my position, as well as not fun for my social life, such as it is.
I agree, I would like to end the shouting, but really, think about the arc of the story here. I first started as one of the most enthusiastic, I was doing my best to make a living out of it, and prove the concept. I started running a witness with the intention of extending the platform in some way.
The biggest problem is that Stinc's failure also takes away from me the community I have got so enmeshed in, so many friends, my whole social life is in here. So, forking steem, is about me doing what I can to try and keep what was good, and throw away what was bad. The in-crowd won't be coming along, I can almost guarantee it. I like this, because they distort everything about the platform, from the upvoting of titties and trading hax, and the self-upvoting of the platform's most notorious self-upvoter, and his opinions about whatever his current neurosis is.
I just want to see what happens when there is an alternative to steemit's version, who comes across, and how many developers want to work on it, and for that matter, how many investors will buy in that were repelled by stinc and their premine.
Most of all, I want to prove these trolls wrong.
But I will just build the new place, and then whether anything happens, depends on how many people want to actually do something to make a new place work. It's gonna be a big 'money where your mouth is' to anyone else who was hating the way things were going. Now, it is an open project, not owned by stinc, and their gaggle of premined witnesses. How serious are people about their freedom?