I'm less concerned about Zuckerberg trying to take over STEEM and more concerned about Facebook gamifying their platform with a crypto. In spite of what they claim, Facebook is a media company and could convince a much wider audience to vote for the witnesses they want. As a reward, they could give people access to a Facebook game where they can earn STEEM just by playing. It's already been done with Pacman.
I really like the Facebook interface (the timeline and groups are terrific!), but strongly dislike the company. I'd love my Facebook friends to migrate to Steemit, but the nature of this platform is too different for it to be a straight swap. If it were a straight swap, the gamification with crypto would have people coming here in droves.
That is true...and at this point, Steemit is not a competitor for Facebook....the new fork, from what I understand is moving towards Reddit which has over 450M accounts.
Also, DTube is going to make a bit of a dent in YouTube. That is probably the one app which can take from the centralized model very quickly...it is a low learning curve and offers the same service less ads and corporate censorship. Of course, there are no where near the viewers on DTube as on Googles flagship site.
I support @dtube and I think their interface for uploading videos is superior to YouTube's.
If I post a popular video on YouTube, it will continue generating revenue over a long period of time. With DTube, there's only a 7 day window for SBD/STEEM revenues, so I think it's niche will be with current affairs content and vlogs that give updates. Or is there an advertising component that would make it attractive for long-term revenue generation?