If you are aware of what has been happening with the hostile take of the steem blockchain, then this is a good opportunity to participate and share your appreciation in this regard.

The word decentralization brings to my mind when in my country they looked for a way to disperse the functions that were concentrated in the country's capital. It was all centralized and it was difficult to carry out procedures no matter how simple they were.

Most social networks are centralized, and the content placed on them can be transformed or even deleted; Everything will depend on whether or not the content you publish likes to block your user or allow you to continue inside. One case that happened to me years ago is that I was never able to monetize my YouTube channel. Why? Because they decided that in my country it was not possible. Point!

It is definitely important to continue as a decentralized platform, because there is no way that a single person can do as they please within the blockchain. All responsibility falls on a community, which must be perfectly represented by its witnesses; Something unpublished in my opinion. We must observe the #steemhostiletakeover that we continue to have! Thanks to the participation of the entire community, although many more are missing, this attack has been kept in control. Our witnesses were removed, but thanks to the fact that we are a decentralized platform, through our vote, we currently have 11 witnesses chosen by the community.

A decentralized platform allows us to actively participate in the blockchain, whether we have a lot or a little Sp. This is a good thing! since we can unify criteria and make it work better in every way.

For me, decentralization means:

• Freedom: Being able to choose the topic I want to talk about without censorship
• Equality
• Right to actively participate and give my opinion
• Fair treatment of the largest towards the smallest
• Choose by myself
• Acknowledgment of intellectual property

These are very important things for me. For these reasons, I am pursuing my career within the Steem blockchain, in order to help create a place where we all fit in regardless of politics or religion.

I want you know that @enginewitty and @untersatz run a healing campaign. To participate you can use the #spreadlovenotwar tag to gain more visibility by the group of curators of the @thealliance family.

Click here to vote for Enginewitty as a witness

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WE ARE STEEM

Did you already use your 30 votes to choose the witnesses in Steem?
If you have not already done so, it is time to do so. We need to place our witnesses in the Top 20.
How to recognize our witnesses?
It is very easy: Our witnesses are not running version 0.22.5. These are the bad guys or the sock witnesses put by Sun in complicity with some exchanges.
Do not know how to do it?
Do not worry! Find another steemian you trust and ask him to explain, or simply leave them as your proxy to have them vote for you.
This will keep us blockchain decentralized because Steem is Not Steemit, and we are not for sale either.