I really like SteemIt, I like their crypto-currency and awards structure. I hope the site grows.

Yes, SteemIt is an independent site with a distributed file system; However, it is still a centralized platform.

Facebook and Twitter are also independent sites. To be truthful. Google, Apple, Verizon and Microsoft are independent companies.

IMHO, the big problem we are facing is media consolidation.

Adding one new web site does not solve this consolidation problem.

The only way to solve media consolidation is to create hundreds of thousands of independently owned web sites.