As some of you may have caught wind of, @misterdelegation has pulled their delegation to DSound. It's unfortunate, but be that as it may, @dsound has been a hugely supportive part of the Steem community for the past year or so. I owe much of who I am on this blockchain to them, so I think it's important to talk about why you should consider upping your delegation (or starting to) to keep them around.
The top reason on my list is not even the platform itself, but @prc. Especially in such a difficult market, I can only imagine it's hard to stay motivated and committed. We've already seen a platform or two bail for what they thought could be higher potential, but @prc hasn't given us any reason to believe that he's leaving. He's attended Steemfest, and is regularly posting about future plans and updates for this Steem-based Dapp. He is also reachable on Discord, and actively communicates with the community. It's little things like this that we need to see. A lot of damage can be done with a lack of public relations (I'm sure we're all getting very comfortable with that conundrum), and I think it's equally important to look at the individuals behind a platform as it is the platform itself.
DSound, like many other Dapps, also use their delegation to upvote their artists. Typically around 15%. Where I've found it very difficult to get the attention of say, Dtube and DLive (when they were a thing), DSound in my opinion has always felt like it's watching a little more closely. Most folks who have said they've had trouble eventually find an endorsement, so to anyone who is posting music regularly, it's a great way to keep building up Steem.
Now, I'm very far from an expert on the under-the-hood matters, so feel free to correct me in the comments if I'm mistaken! But it's also decentralized. As we are usually pretty comfortable with this idea as it's kind of built into the nature of blockchain tech,a surprisingly good number of Dapps are not. As much as I love platforms like Choon, I don't think it is decentralized. Neither was DLive. DSound sometimes gets some flak for it's performance (which has been greatly improved as of lately), but a lot people don't really take into account that DSound is working with the decentralized standard that they should be by being a P2P (IPFS) platform. I think this is important to stay consistent with blockchain ethics/philosophy, and I would also assume prevents them from abruptly jumping ship like DLive did.
We need Dapps like @dsound in our corner. They've been consistent and present for some time now, and personally I've just upped my delegation to 1500 SP to attempt to mitigate some of the loss. It's an extremely small amount, grand scheme, but I think together the community can lift up not only DSound, but any Dapp that may be abandoned by Steemit. I think overall in the current climate, it's probably important that we, the Steem community, gets used to these transitions anyways. We may take a hit for sometime, but at the end of it all it'll be a community driven, community owned Steem. Let's show @dsound some love and that we want them with us through it.
