The post mentions an upcoming Blurt hardfork based off of Steem by @birdinc. Here's the source code at https://gitlab.com/blurt/blurt. Also at https://twitter.com/BlurtOfficial:
Blurt is a fork of the Steem blockchain that begins operating on or before July 4th, 2020 with Steem balances taken in a snapshot at block 43526969.
So is this a counter-fork to keep a version of Steem going that isn't so irreparably tainted? Does anyone expect BLURT to have value?