RE: Martin Shkreli's ridiculous BAN from Twitter is a Welcome Mat for STEEMIT
just came across the busy.org beta, and it sounds like steem+busy (especially with the traction it already has) may be steadily morphing into a base model that could eventually compete with everything from YouTube/FaceBook to Uber/AirBnb/Paypal:
As a non-profit organization, BUSY aims to bring value back to the people by replacing these monolithic, centralized, for-profit companies with a Decentralized Open Source Platform, enabled by Blockchain and peer-to-peer technology. We believe that Steem with Graphene can fulfill this mission notably through its high scalability and zero transaction fee model.
Using the power of the Steem blockchain, Busy is an Open-Source social network and communication platform that extends itself to a variety of rich features and functionality including free digital payments and a marketplace for goods and services.
A social media platform on Steem more like Facebook/Twitter/Rocket.Chat than Reddit/Medium like, An open platform for a future marketplace for Good and services
New Proposed Changes that appear to facilitate many of these new features as well as solve/normalize some current issues with steemit ecosystem : https://steemit.com/steem/@steemitblog/steem-0-17-change-proposal-introduction