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RE: Would You Welcome "DLive" Back to Our Platform?
It really did look like a "take the money and run" scheme, but you never know ...
To be clear ...
I'm 90% sure it WAS a take the money and run scheme ... but in a free society, there's nothing preventing them from doing that ... but the same society will make it hard for them to return. Unless they simply rebrand themselves with different userid's...
Maybe they are already back ...
I digress..
What money did they run off with though? They used their delegation to upvote Steemians and their staff (which PLENTY of Steem operations do). The stats don't lie, they upvoted more users than most other dApps comparatively (They posted their voting stats monthly including team votes which made up ~10% of their monthly voting. Very reasonable IMO.). They used their VP and delegation very well if you take emotion out of your thinking.
IIRC they had accumulated like 70-80k STEEM/SP from their time curating on the Steem platform and didn't power down until they LEFT Steem. That STEEM when cashed out wouldn't cover 2 months of operating cost for a streaming platform. This community severely underestimates the cost of operating a streaming infrastructure at the level DLive operates. For nearly 10 months DLive operated at a deficit on top of the additional flaws the STEEM ecosystem had/has.
They were presented with an opportunity to switch blockchains and have more resources at their disposal all while being able to address the issues DLive thought was hindering their mainstream adoption on the Steem blockchain.
I don't harbor any resentment for DLive, they did what they thought was best for their company's future which is what ANY of us would have done under the same circumstances.
I don't blame our community for being angry with DLive, but we also don't have the full story.
(According to a source - DLive team member since the beginning) DLive never approached Ned or Steem for the delegation, it was given to them without really any communication at all from Steem or Ned. In fact the only direction DLive received from Ned was to not use their delegation to upvote TrevonJb.
There are plenty of reasons to dislike DLive and how they handled their situation, but a a "take the money and run" scheme is definitely not something they're guilty of. It was more like a "cut our losses and run" scheme.
That is the kind of "full explanation for leaving" that I think would win the hearts and minds of many steemians. When fully explained with logic and not emotion, it is much more reasonable.
Even @ezzy might agree.