Well its great that someone in your position is having a value system that is not just about $$$ .... at least as your claim in your writing here .... but its the results that are mesured .... not just words.... one of the result for block.one is having a lot of bitcoin from an ico .... I cant speak about the tech itself, not qualified
Steem, now hive, has been trough some rough path, but its more decentralized now then beffore, although not ideal
A result that will be a "success" for online freedom would be to make it easy (granma can do it) to make a "self custody" apps/social but still be a part of somethig
Something I don't see often. Something I always try to bring across. "Even when one thinks its already simple to use some service, the service shall still be 10 times easier to use", is a statement I most of the time use. The problem with crypto projects: They are all way too complex still for grandma, and therefor for the mass.