The kittens are already slightly staked in PAL and CCC but I don't plan to go much further with the tribes.
I'm also not a fan of "status updates", while it's a nice way to get some posting rewards, they tend to become meaningless all too quickly and that's not something I'd want to keep doing. I'd really prefer to keep the kittens engaged in just their non-verbal cuddling exploration.
Most tribe tokens earned with the kittens are currently all flowing back to @catnet where they get turned into STEEMP mostly for real steem growth. In all honesty, all these tribes, how long will they be with us after native steem communities and SMTs become available?! I'm not very bullish about most of the side-chain-proof-of-brain tokens to be honest.