Thanks for the mention and the kind words!

From my perspective, what happened is that I fundamentally disagreed with both the action to freeze Steemit's stake, and also the use of exchange funds to retake the chain, so I voted for enough witnesses in both camps to enable either faction to "veto" hostile actions by the other. In point of fact, I was voting for decentralization/diversity by including witnesses from both camps and hoping that each would act as check and balance against the other. But the #hive squad evidently doesn't tolerate any challenge to their ability to control the chain.

@cmp2020 used me as a proxy, so his accounts were largely just caught up in the sieve.

Of course I can't claim to be objective, but IMO the mere existence of the blacklist should be a clear indication to all that #hive is simply a matter of Sierra squared Delta squared. ; -)

It is ironic that their announcement frames dissent as voting for centralization, when it's exactly the opposite. Instead of winding up with one decentralized chain, we got two that are both operating under centralized control (although competition between the two chains might still act as a decentralizing force).

At any rate, before I saw the blacklist I was torn about whether to migrate over or not, so at least they made that decision easy for me.