My problem lies here:
Sun sure knows how to be loud which is something Ned/Steemit always lacked.
This is true but not necessarily something we want. Looking up what this Sun guy is all about and he hardly has a decent reputation, a convicted criminal of no less than 15 charges including hiring illegal prostitutes to march around his offices or something?
...the organization has been beset by allegations of plagiarism. The white paper of TRON was widely accused of plagiarism.[3] Researchers from Digital Asset Research (DAR) have discovered multiple instances of code copied from other projects in the Tron code base.
An absolute narcissist promising broken dreams every other day and his Tron chain considered by many to be a total scam shitcoin or whatever. We're hardly moving to greener pastures, are we?
We've been trying for years to create a place with decent reputation; we are the exception to the rule that crypto is for scammers, we are legit, look at our community. And then they turn and see we're now owned by this 富二代 sociopath or whatever.
For me personally, the fact that he's involved with (in the sense that he has the attention of) the Chinese Government should be a major concern considering how centralised they are trying to make everything.
If we lack decentralization any more and become run by a Chinese guy in cahoots with very pro-communist party folk such as Jack Ma, we can probably say goodbye to the idea of 'uncensored', too.
After some hours though, the fact that Steem itself is basically a stagnant pit at this point, and has been for as long as I can remember in terms of overall development moving forward (sign up yet, anyone?) something had to be done. Maybe this is the better way forward if it otherwise means sitting around announcing 50,000 crypto projects that disappear again after a few weeks.
I dunno. Either way it's probably the end for me unless I can get clarity on how much of a connection to the CCP this new format entails