I think it is great that we have yet another app being built directly on top of the Steem blockchain like DTube, DSound, and DMania (I'm sure there are others). I'm pretty sure that 2018 will be the year of Steemit when it breaks through to the popular masses. Given that you don't need any crypto and any money to access it it is the obvious "gateway drug" that will get people hooked on decentralized economies.

While the Steemit user numbers may still be very small, just 40,000 active users per day - just a rounding error on platforms like Facebook - but we still lead the world in blockchain transactions and it is really not hard to imagine 10x growth this year, or even more. Can you imagine what will happen if advertisers actually discover the platform? A platfom where every upvote is completely transparent and on the blockchain for analysis. They can see how their promoted posts stack up against other companies. They can data-mine the crap out of the ant-hill of consumers out there. Anarchy! Should be loads of fun to see how it all falls out!