Shilling Other platforms and dual witnessing

We have seen a lot of this over the course of a year and even more so now with ONO and EOS getting closer to launch. I have seen some people switch almost completely to shilling other platforms who used to be the same ones pushing steem hard, all the while talking about “community”. In some circumstances it comes across as selling out one community to push another.

Now I am all for new platforms appearing and using them etc but it comes across as tacky when its just hard core shilling for different platform. I have seen some who were all “steem community” power down a lot and even lease out steem to bots while getting involved in other communities while bashing steem in one form another.

Its not the fact that they may prefer a different platform over this one or even that they would leave steem or power down but the insencerity of their actions specially after talking about how “community” based they are. Their actions and what they are doing is helping undermine a community they say they used to support while jumping to another.

There are also witnesses who are pushing hard into both. One blog post from Hive account@donkeypong here has some good comments from witnesses pertaining to this. I am sort of lenient on the issue because to me its the Wild West of crypto but it brings up some interesting points and I can imagine some conflict of interests or gaming the systems etc. I also dont know if its wise to “centralize” witnesses in different systems. It then becomes different systems run by the same people and increases the conceptual centralization since the same people see things the same even in different systems. I also can imagine all sorts of subtle price collusion and inside information that could be used to massive advantage in many ways.

I have no hardline stance on any of this and I myself will end up trying out some other platforms etc I’m sure, I just know some of the shilling came across as tacky and desperate to me.

What are your thoughts? I am curious as to what you see or think on this issue. Do you think it hurts the platform? Do you think its good for crypto? Or do you just not care?