Thank you and goodbye!

The circle has closed and it is time for me to say a huge thank you and a big goodbye even if there is no one left to read it :)

I was introduced to steem 2 years ago. At the time I was already 45 years old, I was spending my days working on a farm and I was completely illiterate about blogging, online communities or crypto. I had never had any social media account and I still haven't apart from steem (that I am quitting), hive (that I just moved into) and a twitter account that I opened a few days ago to help promoting the hive blockchain. The first weeks I often wondered what on earth was I doing at a blockchain based social media?

Well as many others before me have written, I came for the money, I stayed for the community. It sounds like a cliche but it cannot be closer to the truth. I met great photographers and wonderful bloggers, I got inspiration and encouragement and on the bottom line I reinvented my photographic identity and have found the balance I was missing all that time. The two large pieces of my life's puzzle, the rural living and photography were, at last, perfectly fitted.

And then February of 2020 came and the whole steem building started to shake. Steemit was sold to Justin Sun, owner of the tron ecosystem and as it turned out an arrogant and dangerously ignorant speculator. The past 2 years I grew a fondness about the steem community but the last 2 months I became very proud to be part of it. We stood way above the morals and the level of our interlocutor and when it was clear that we were negotiating with a brick wall, we came up with the best possible solution.

That solution is no other than hive.io, a community-driven fork that created a new decentralized blockchain, a censorship free environment for all kind of creators, our new home!

You can read a lot more about me in My Introduction to the Hive Community and if you like my blog you can follow me in https://peakd.com/@fotostef or https://hive.blog/@fotostef.

Many thanks to all of you that were part of my steem experience, for all your support, guidance and inspiration, it would not have been the same without you!

Best,
Stefanos.