I finally took the time (ghees, it took only two minutes to set it up!) to redirect all my Steem posts to their mirror post on Hive.
The team of @engrave developed a dedicated tool for that pretty much right after Hive was born and I thought it was a great idea! Knowing each and every post I ever wrote would be floating on two places didn't sit right with me, and moreover, it's a great way to let people who are still on Steem or log in to Steem in a few months where all my content and presence has gone.
Tonight I took the plunge - at this point I only have a 3,5 week power down left and even the little cross-posting I have done for those who were left behind is now over. It took me a while, despite all of the shit that can be said about Steem to close that door forever. But there's no way back anymore. And although I am grateful for what Steem was, I want to build on Hive, and I want my content to be found in one place. Steempruner it is then!
Prune your posts
So, here are the posts you should read if you want to try this out for your own Steem account:
- https://peakd.com/steemit/@engrave/steem-pruner-quick-way-to-remove-posts-from-steem-the-censored-blockchain
- https://peakd.com/hive/@engrave/even-better-steem-pruner
Read carefully, as you don't want to accidentally clear/prune your posts on Hive, but the most important step is to set your node settings to api.steemit.com in Steem Keychain and if you do that it's really as easy as 1-2-3.
The tool loads all your posts for you:
I chose to 'insert a Hive link' in all my old Steem posts. Then I chose my favourite frontend (peakd.com ofcourse!), and last but not least I added a small note to my posts for readers to understand a little more. I chose to word it as if 'Steem has been renamed to Hive' as I like that one the best and I hope this is how we all will see and remember it in a few months/years time :-)
I tested with one post first, I was curious if it would be able to find my Hive link as it was a post I made after the fork so it wouldn't be as simple as finding the mirror post before the fork, but surprisingly it worked! Definitely a nifty tool you made @engrave!
Anyway, the post on steempeak.com looked like this after it was pruned:
That was actually all I wanted from this tool: a link to the Hive post, and a little note for the imaginary reader that might be looking for me on Steem in a week, a month, or a year's time.
Awesome. All my posts now redirect to Hive and I feel better because of it. The whole process from start to 'having all posts Pruned' was about 15 minutes.
Thanks Steem, you've given me so much! Hello Hive, here is my undivided attention and content!
Try it out for yourself via steempruner.site and don't forget to read the posts I linked above so nothing goes wrong :-)
PS: I was able to Prune 500+ posts with 5000SP Resource Credits, only taking about 10% of them. But just an FYI you don't want to do this when you're on 10-100 SP or so I'd guess :-)
Thanks for the write-up, I'll be doing this in a week or two :)
Wh00p! It feels great to do it, no more double-content-stuff floating around.
I have seen a tool (python skills required) by holger80 to change the links in your posts on Steem with a Hive web front end (could be good for SEO?). Both options are good, and I think most Hive people should do one or the other before they are powered down completely on Steem.
I'll probably do the same as you as there's no code required.
Yes! I noticed Holger's tool too! I think his way might be better for SEO. It's great there's an option for n00bs and techies, as indeed I believe everyone should do one of the two before they're powered down.
congrats! it feels good doesn't it?
I decided to stop posting on the other chain as of yesterday. I found it difficult to let go after 3 years and a lot of effort. But...I found myself posting rubbish, a picture with some words, with no passion or effort. I guess I was doing what many are, that is posting for a few rewards. It didn't sit well with me.
I've put a lot of effort into that platform, effort which continues with hive, and whilst I'm not a magnificent writer I try my best. Posting on that other chain in the way I was felt like I was compromising my integrity, especially after years of applying effort, and so I decided to stop. I don't judge others doing it of course; That's their journey.
So, yes, it feels good to have made that decision, to focus on the future and draw a line underneath the past.
I'll be pruning too.
congrats! i had a very similar feeling.
After so long posting there it had become a habit and to my detriment, after hive started, I allowed my quality to decline and that made me feel bad about myself...A condition I don't tolerate. So, I stopped. I feel good now, happy, and can focus on my hive scenario.
Thanks for your comment, I appreciate people's engagement a lot.
It feels like that day once every 3 years where I throw out all my old clothes and fold the good stuff in neat piles :D
yeah, it is a great feeling!
Awesome. I need to do that too. I quit all my activities on Steem last week (even voting) and I guess this would be the final step in leaving that place. Thanks for putting this together Rosa :)
:D Hope it works out for you as well! I have some autovotes on still but that will stop automatically once I don't hold enough RC's anymore in three weeks :-)
I have done this too this week. I had 2500 Steem posts and it took a while. I had to restart the process a few times, but we got there in the end. I hope it brings a few more people to Hive as Steem may still show up more on Google for now.
Hive five!
2500 posts! That's huge :D Well, Google doesn't like it when posts show up 'empty' so to say so it will definitely add some downwards pressure on Google's SEO is my guess. We'll see. At least users on Steem who wake up in a few months will know where we are thanks to this tool.
Anything that leads them to Hive is a bonus. It's amazing how quickly Steem has gone downhill. There seems to be little in the way of downvoting those who buy votes or self-vote all the time. The Steemflagrewards community are regrouping on Hive to work out what needs doing here. So far it is not too bad.
Let's see if some tweeps will start pruning too:
Thanks for sharing. I will do mine soon.
Great! Good luck!
Great job. I will try.
Good! It's easy, just don't forget to change to api.steemit.com in Keychain - can't say that enough :D
I really need to get around to doing this myself!
Thanks for the reminder!
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They have a 'fuck Justin Sun' button, that's hilarious!
LOL! Yes they do :D I can imagine that one was the most used option in the first weeks after the Big Fork, but I decided to do the mature route :')
Yeah I am down to 2k ish Steem. I may do it in a few batches.
My guess is you can do about 2000 posts on 2K SP, so decide for yourself! It's like a nice blockchain cleanup, good luck! :-)
Definitely all of us on #hive should do it.
It will leave a stigma on steem for others to follow.
It's a nice 'hint' for those who are still there if they are looking for their favourite authors and they moved to another place...
Hey! How about that? (It's a baseball announcer's schtick. I miss baseball)
Thank You!
That's a big thank you from me. I had resigned myself to losing the posts on Steemy at some point. My plan was to finish my power down, put a note in the header where I'd gone, and never look back. That door slammed firmly shut 10 weeks ago for me.
I really appreciate the option to have them be here and with me. That's some cool stuff.
Thanks again!
Yes yes yes! Glad you learned about this option from the post @bigtom13! I didn't love the idea of having my content in 2 places and definitely feel better having it all here with me :-)
I ran across this the other day and was so surprised how easy it was to do. Painless simply painless!! A few clicks and let the magic happen. Great tool for those that are all in on Hive!!
Cheers!!
Lovely! Great it worked out so well for you :D
Cheers!
I won't post on steem anymore as of yesterday. I found myself dropping pointless posts there for a couple weeks whilst focusing my effort on hive...It didn't sit well with me as I've always inserted effort, passion and personality into my posts and so I decided to stop.
I'll do this prune thing too.
Right? It feels cheap to shitpost, lol! We've totally been brainwashed to not love shitposting anymore. We're ruined. Cheers on the pruning :-)
Ruined for sure. Still, I don't mind...It's not my style. It feels good not posting on the other anymore and I can hardly wait until my four-week PD completes and I can truly move forward, without it. Thank you for replying.
Haha, I just wonder what you and other steempruners would say if suddenly Stinc and the Steem blockchain through some unexpected 'marketing' maneuver will start paying 'lifetime' monetary rewards for content within their platform instead of just 7 days.
Yeah, definitely wonder what I would say to that! :')
How to not wonder everything in these days eh? Hahahaha
Damn, have I been wearing masks wrong all this time? :D
If it were for looking sexier, maybe so. :D
Ah! THIS is how to get that little red redirection pop up on steempeak!?
I’ll be following these steps later today. Thanks!
Nah, the red redirection pop-up can be found in the Steempeak settings itself! You just have to toggle that under 'actions' on your Steempeak profile page. But the text in the posts is from the Steempruner tool :D
Ah, I see
Thanks for sharing your experience. I also wish to do this. Maybe I will do this later. But for not, I have reduced my cross posting as of today. One of my posts were recently censored on Steemit, so now I'm choosing which one to cross post and which one to not cross post. I hope one day I might be fully out of Steem. 🙂
Hehe - I'm out in three weeks! :-) Good luck with your own Steem exit journey!
3 weeks great. I'm planning to leave some tokens idle there to see how far it can go. Ready to even lose it. Just a small experiment. ;)
But what if HIVE goes to dust (that's one level under shitcoin) when all the HIVErs finish thier STEEM power downs which have been putting upward pressure on HIVE's price or the kiddie perverts of the dark web start using my Doomsday Browser Extension and no HIVE witnesses would dare the potential legal ramifications of housing the HIVE blockchain on their server. Then you may be happy to have a backup of all your old content on STEEM. Just sayin. 😎
Uh... You know the content is still on whichever blockchain survives, right? Just chose one blockchain to actually show it on its frontends. Plus I hold offline copies of my blockchain data. Cheers!
Its hard for me to understand how it can be on both blockchains yet only displayed on one. No matter, so long as you are confident that is the case.
Well, in short, an edited post on a Steem frontend doesn't scrub my content from the Steem blockchain as these blocks were already signed and stored on witness servers running the agreed version of the Steem chain.
For example:
Until the last witness turns off their node our content will 'live' on Steem/Hive blockchains, even if we remove the content from their frontends which is only a method to display the blockchain data in the end.
EDIT: Ah, Scribe was actually already moved to work for the Hive blockchain I realize now, but the idea remains the same :-)
well what about your old posts here? all the pictures are still coming from the steem blockchain how did you solve that? you are still linking to the steem blockchain with certain links if you didn't change your posts on hive. I began changing a lot on my media account what resulted in rc problems
"Steem has been renamed Hive"