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Golos.io (Russian Steemit fork) has already stated they'll be implementing on-chain private messaging... That is if they EVER implement the next HF; the devs are lazy ass gopniks with vodka replacing their morning coffee... >:(((

You can use AskSteem, it works really well, much better than Stinc® could make.

It certainly does! Thank you!

Yes, these two are some features I also miss. However, this is about the Steem blockchain and not the Steemit platform. These changes will takes place on all platforms like Steemit, DTube, Utopian, Busy and so on.

I am still so new to the nuances of steem, I probably could find a better place to ask these questions, but @flauwy, you seem to be the smartest steemian I know so...

  1. Looking for an easy way to message in the steem world, I came across many posts that said busy.org is the way to go. I decided to (finally) try out busy.org, and it's quite nice, I must say! Except that I have become quite accustomed to 'night mode' recently.
    Anyway - I see no messaging or group chat of any kind... any insight?

  2. MAIN QUESTION: I had noticed a some weeks ago that I was seemingly auto-voting on content! I discovered this by accident as I was searching for the latest content from @cryptodaily, and I saw I had voted on every single post from the past few weeks. I was a little concerned, as I have never used any type of auto vote service - but I really didnt care that much as I love @cryptodaily, so what the heck right?
    However - today , using busy.org's awesome activity function I saw that I have also been somehow auto upvoting on @corganmusic for the past three months!!!
    As far as I can tell I have never even visited this particular blog, and I have no memory of engaging with any type of auto upvote service. Why am I auto upvoting these accounts? How do I stop? How did I start?

Thank you in advance!

Thanks for the compliment.

  1. There was a messaging function on the first version of Busy. But now with the Beta of v2 they got rid of it because nobody was using it. Instead, people use SteemitChat or even better Discord. On SteemitChat you will find the majority of Steemians but you will find more action and groups on Discord. Beware people who ask you for money there because there are imposters as well. Come and find me on Discord and we have a chat. :)

  2. This can have many reasons but is for most likely related to a 3rd Party app that you have giving access to your account. Try to double-check Streemian, SteemVoter, SteemAuto (probably not because newer than 3 months) for example. If all doesn't help you can reset all your keys and make sure that any association to all 3rd party apps will be killed 100%. I have never done that before so I am not clear on how that actually works but I know this feature exists! That is what you need your private owner key for as far as I know.

But on Steemed it looks like only Busy has your posting key:

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Ah right! I see.