[...] here is another thought I'd like to throw out, that is to have decentralized servers accessing the steem blockchain, developed by the community for either love of the community or for financial profit. Doing so should leave the guys at Steemit.com to do the development of their roadmap. Anyone else can develop their own web interface and see which the market likes best.
Anyone can write a server for the Steem blockchain, and there are two main alternates that I know of: busy.org and chainBB. Both are really good but they are not decentralized. However the fact that there are three main ways to access the blockchain using a web app of some kind is a kind of decentralization.
And there's nothing stopping anyone else from making a new one, except time and resources. 🙂