Survival mode is never a good place to be, I totally get it. But blockchains are supposed to be cheap ya know, for the people by the people and all that..

I love steem, I love and appreciate steemit, more than letters on the screen can express. But I feel a lack of focus.. and maybe that's because of the whole Ned and Dan drama, maybe Dan was the real visionary and Ned was a marketing guy, I don't know, most of that history is long before me, and it really doesn't matter. What matters is now and the future.. the blockchain doesn't need steem inc, steem inc needs the blockchain. If costs are overloading steem inc, shut down some nodes and ipfs shit on the aws side of things, and offload it to the greater community, sure, it'll suck for some days or weeks, but the community will figure it out. We need a "RIP steemit inc, long live steemit inc!!" moment....

Anyways, I'm ranting... I'll leave it at that for now. But please, don't take any of what I'm saying as an attack on steemit. Just another perspective from my stream of consciousness. Namaste.