"hope it doesn't need to sell to a mainsteam-like platform."

Unfortunately, doesn't success for a social media platform almost always entail being somewhat mainstream? The more people I know on Steemit, the more awesome it is. I hope it supplants Facebook completely, and I will take the idiots on board happily to get them out of censorship and into the loving arms of Rationality (tm).

"the content being fucking great. If it's not that then the platform is dead."

I realize this sounds great to say, and I want to be true in real life, but Facebook and Twitter utterly destroy this line of logic. Can you support this claim in any way? All evidence points to the exact opposite.

"There's some great content on here, but let's be honest, that is regularly overshadowed by the absolute quagmire of shite."

Yeah, the article-finding interface is terribad. You have to follow specific authors and that is a LOT of work.

"Someone will create something better with the same logic if things don't change course..."

Here's to communies and HF20...

Thanks for a great comment!