The rise of side-chain communities like PALnet (which maintain difference consensus rules using the existing Steem rails) is a crash course in how blockchain actually works for most people.
Every upvote is committed to the Steem blockchain. Side-chains count it (or not) based on the post tags.
On a related note... SBI received 2190 PAL from the airdrop and all of it was staked on the main account. The other voting accounts were excluded from the airdrop. Curation and author rewards on PALnet are being spread gradually across the rest of the pool structure.
Yep, crash course it is. Nice one, though... :-)