I am using the new tags for some of these tribes, but really have not investigated further. I have at least 30 tokens now in steem-engine and also have not looked into that too much.
I like the idea of separating into groups based on our interests and also using dApps that might pay for our posts on them with upvotes. Steemit is such a mess that I abandoned it for posting almost one year ago and stopped using it entirely a couple of months ago.
I feel like the steem blockchain is the strength here. Good dApps and tribes will succeed and thrive and the bad ones will disappear over time. I am not an early adopter and so I will wait a few more months to investigate which ones are the winners. I have some friends in discord who are really excited about all of this and pay attention when they mentions good tags or places to post. But I am not going to be the person to help it all get sorted out.
RE: Are the tribes the solution for steem or are we dispersing the force?