Last months are not so good for steem in terms of price and what is happening on the crypto space. But as you can check here: https://steemapps.com it's a lot of happening around steem blockchain.

After strong "Bear market" many projects was wash away from the surface and many projects were forgotten. Despite this negative environment there is builded more, and more decentralized apps based on steem blockchain. It's great time to become more active or even invest, because I think steem is so much undervalued right now.
I predict with new decentralized services and applications based on steem, there will be much more steem users next year. Bigger demand will cause higher steem prices, and this will attract even more people to the ecosystem and bigger popularity.