I'm very excited to hear that these kind of initiatives are starting to take place.
When I first started using steemit pretty much every other post with a high payout was about steemit, Which to begin with was very helpful as It enabled me to learn about the platform, But It did get a slightly boring after a while, Plus I had come to the conclusion that The only way that you would be rewarded for your hard work was to join the queue and start circlejerking.
It's projects like these that bring hope to to this platform, And I genuinely can't wait to see steemit become as diversified as every other social media website, And also to see decent hardworking content creators being rewarded for the hard work that they are putting into their posts.
Steemit truly is becoming a great community to be a part of.