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RE: 🚨 Someone Stole My Writing Here and Reposted It Elsewhere 🚨
Having to prove my work is original is the most annoying part of it all. But, as you put it, it's 'comforting' to know that my work isn't 'shitty' if someone bothered to copy it, haha!
On another note, there's a new issue where Hivewatcher is making negative remark about Steemit. I've been poring over the internet trying to understand why he would say such a thing.
There's a lot of history there. Hive split off from Steem in 2020 after Steemit was acquired by The Tron Foundation. There was a lot of "bad blood" when it happened. Ever since then (and even before, to some degree), many central figures on the Hive chain - including hivewatchers - have been hostile towards Steem and Steemit.
They'll give lots of reasons why Steemit is bad and Hive is good, but IMO it all boiled down to the fact that they thought their influence here was being threatened by the acquisition. Before the acquisition, Steemit took a laissez faire approach to blockchain voting and governance, but the Hive faction was concerned that Tron wouldn't continue that strategy.
At the time, they claimed that the driving factors were over-centralization and the likelihood that Steem would be merged into the Tron (TRX) blockchain. However, their exit left both blockchains more centralized - not less.
5 years later, my best guess is that the Steemit/TRX partnership probably owns about 10-15% of the Steem ecosystem's value (down from maybe 25% in 2020), and Steem is still a standalone chain, so in retrospect it seems that both concerns were unfounded. But, the hard feelings remain.
Fair warning: When you solicit opinions on this topic (from either chain), be skeptical. It had a complicated history going all the way back to the Steem blockchain's launch, so most people (myself included) don't know all the factors that were really in play, and because of the "bad blood", not everyone is going to give you honest/objective feedback.
I totally get it that personal opinions can be heavily tilted at times. With issues like this, it's much like a court case: even after a verdict of guilty or innocent, no one truly knows the entire truth, let alone in a situation like this.
What's more, as a new and low-level user, what am I supposed to do when they drop such a bomb in my lap with remarks like that? Take sides? I wasn't there, and that was so long ago. I'm neutral, and neither side has harmed me personally, though now I've had my own bad experience on PeakD. If there's a bad actor there, then what? Do I just direct my anger at the site itself?
I wish I could give you advice about Hive (PeakD), but I haven't used it since the fork, so I'm totally out of touch. There are definitely some people who continued to use both chains, but I don't know how common that is or how successful they are.
I know of at least one person who has continued posting unique content on each platform, and I know of some others who post duplicate copies of the same posts on both platforms. In general, I think the person posting unique content in both places probably gets more voting support (but that could be wrong). That strategy is definitely more likely to protect you from downvotes from hivewatchers and others.
Personally, I don't think you should be forced to take sides, and I think most people on Steem would agree. On Hive, I think there are probably still some people who would pressure you to choose - as you're already starting to see. Some people here have actually been driven away from Hive by that sort of toxicity.
Anyway, at least I'm glad that the community over there addressed the post that had been copied from you.
You know, I actually had a moment like that recently – I accidentally reposted something from Steem. Thankfully, no one called me out, but I figured it was best to amend the post since we can't just delete them. These days, I'm really trying to post unique content on each platform, even though I don't really know many people there. A friend on Steemit even delegated some Hive Power to me, so I'm mostly just doing prompts and Actifit posts over there. Nothing too elaborate, and honestly, not many readers or comments yet either.
As remlaps-lite already said, there was a split years ago. At that time, all existing Steem accounts were copied to Hive and the founders of Hive wanted to attract as many users as possible to their new chain and made negative remarks against Steem. The negative mindset has been maintained by some to this day, so I'm not surprised by the comment.
It wasn't a nice time and I'm quite glad that the fronts have calmed down, at least between the normal users.
This feels much like when a country splits for whatever reason. Even when there's no conflict on the surface, there's usually a lingering tension, especially among those who were present during the split. It really shouldn't be an issue for the newer generation who weren't involved in the original events.
Yes, that's a good comparison, it felt very similar.
The dust has settled for a while now, and with old friendships a difference of opinion about which chain would be better wasn't a problem anyway.
All should remain calm and good, as long as nobody don't stir up any trouble.