Fuck yeah! Someone else is tooting The Blockchain hypetrain!!! CHOO CHOO! lol. Anyway, this is almost what all my posts are about:

Smiting the comparison of Dot Com bubble vs blockchain
Why the Blockchain is more valuable than gold.
The Blockchain is immune to Greed

(please let me know if these links are unacceptable. I will kill them asap if that's the case.)

There are a lot of centralization problems with Steemit. I address them but I think greed might win in the end, but like you said, anyone can come along and take the open source to make a superior site. These are exciting times!