I think it's super important that those of us who have been around since the early days of AOL and have been through the entire AOL to epinions to Xanga/LiveJournal/Diary-X to MySpace to Facebook and beyond are part of the ongoing input and development of the Steemit platform... don't know about you, but I've seen dozens of "great ideas" die in the gutter because the same (avoidable) mistakes were made that caused the previous failure.

I also see Steemit's potential to take some older models and "do them right." This is social blogging/social content... Steem is Xanga "e-props," except with real world value. We have the peer-curation process that drove the good parts of epinions. And Themestream. Facebook was actually pretty cool, once upon a time. We have "Reddit done right." We also have the potential for a "version" of the different curation platforms, when they bring in "Communities." We can add our own versions of "the best of" YouTube, Crowd funding, streaming radio, an eBay-like marketplace and more.

If we can keep the decentralized idea without ending up at "fragmentation" (so many independent apps it becomes a giant mess) Steemit has the potential to become a whole new type of web ecosystem... not only contributor built and driven, but also (potentially) capable of taking a step in the direction of offering a source of (very) basic income to many people.