This image originally said "Bitcoin" but it's been a phrase that has been uttered a few times per year for the last half a decade at least and it's been quite true so far. I figured it will probably fit to Steem as well, we might have the "fighting part" still ahead of us.
I realize a lot of people don't really care about decentralization. Don't care about being the only person owning your account in a mathematically secure invention. Don't wanna go through the hassle of registering on exchanges and figuring out how to cash out. It's alright though, every innovation takes it's time no matter how great it is. Sure that time may have decreased in this day and age compared with other previous big innovations but similar to that this tech can't be compared. Maybe it could be compared a little bit to Android since it also is open-source such as Linux, but hey that's Operative Systems on computers and phones, clearly they are more important than your value as a human, oh wait.
At one point though, sooner or later, with the problems of current centralized giants showing us their weak points, their greed and their scandals. These things are heading towards each other at an accelerated speed. How many people are required until an avalanche of word of mouth starts happening, remember how quick shit can go viral? Welp, you better be ready your back-end can take it. You better be ready your security is top notch. Some times these things only require one ignite to flame up a whole new section of this new internet at a time where social media is wasting more and more of our life while leaving us with information of which company has put the most money into advertisement. Constantly addicted for more, faster, better but constantly leaving you feeling empty inside.
The next few years will be some important ones, it seems as if we as a blockchain have taken our first steps as a toddler and learned how to communicate, now we're getting ready to run without breaking a sweat. That may have been quite a weird analogy, I'm basically saying we can take the traffic and the team has focused on scalability. It would suck if steemkitties or rogerverspam were to clog up our blockchain, wouldn't it? It's going to be interesting to see how Steem's economy will spread all over the internet and the effects it will have. I'm happy to have joined this experiment as early as I did, they will probably happen often and in different universes/forks, but the first one is always special. :)
Who's to say how our platform will evolve over the years, in the end we will still have won cause there isn't someone in charge of our future who's only looking to profit for themselves.
PS. Sorry for clickbaity title. :p