As long as steemit is holding almost all steem in their wallet we won't have proper decentralization. After all steemit account is holding 45Million steem. Can you cumulate this number in 3 accounts on steemit? And even if you could it is still pretty centralized.

Decentralization means a French dude creating @dtube for video creators instead of Ned doing it.

Decentralizing efforts is showed when a pair of British guys take Steem and promote it in summits and conferences via @oracle-d, that's not Steemit Inc's job.

Now about this - what would dtube be and oracle-d without steemit's/ned's delegation of 1 /2 million steem? nothing...

A true decentralized community translates into a ton of people taking over curation initiatives like @ocd, @curie and @qurator, instead of what happened at the beginning where @steemit handled most curation via trails.

I've been in curie for some time - currently its dying - obviously steem(it) don't need it. that's a fact we haven't had delegation nor any support than few nice words from the same people here and there, and now the only whale that has been with curie around for almost entire life is powering down (not killing the trail vote still). Next thing - I love OCD, and yes, they did immoral thing to go with the bot but they are thriving at the moment, so glad for the team and they still curate manually which is great!
Now qurator - really don't know what is it about them - you pay it once to enter on their list, give them upvotes delegate to them and they vote you once a day no matter what you post - how can that contribute to community? They tend to pick up all the cream - Curation rewards, liquid payments, and give random votes for all voters. ...

We started this project - and response was pretty slim - some interaction without any recognition, as soon as we boosted our vote to arund $1 - there is some talk and more recognition - but let's be honest in a 6 month we can suffocate ourself with even rising a vote to $1.5 - without some divine intervention.

So... currently we can't talk about decentralization if everyone depends on Ned's delegation because everyone else will be delegating to bots (profit - that's what we are looking for).