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RE: This Proposal Is An Attack On SBD... Sound The Alarm!
So I don't disagree with the theme of your post (keeping SBD) but I do want to point out a small technicality.
Under the proposal, users of steemit.com will no longer receive liquid rewards at all. If this were to be adopted, no new SBD would be produced aside from interest payments on existing balances.
Technically under the GitHub proposal, users who posted via other interfaces besides Steemit (like Busy.com, or the command line) would still generate new SBD and liquid rewards. The issue is only proposing to change the rewards for posts created via the Steemit.com interface.
There is still the "slipperly slope" argument, but at least as far as what is in the actual GitHub proposal, it is not talking about removing liquid rewards entirely.
The post points out that "it must be created and distributed widely across the platform" [emphasis in original]
The proposal threatens that, to the extent that alternate interfaces are not widely enough used, which is at this point extremely uncertain (no widely used alternate interfaces exist at all).
I don't disagree with that at all. I was just pointing out a technicality in wording. The post said that the proposal would cause "no new SBD would be produced aside from interest payments on existing balances". This is technically not correct, at least based on what is being discussed in the specific GitHub issue that is being referred to.
Thats true. I was trying not to get into the weeds. The vast majority of posts are made through steemit.com anyway, and will continue to be for the foreseeable future.
Agreed, although that could change with Busy. A change like this could actually (intentionally or unintentionally) speed up the migration to other platforms too. I'm not saying it is a good thing, but I suspect if users could get liquid rewards on some other site (and not on Steemit), a lot of them would post there rather than here.
The implications for SBD still remain.