My thoughts are it's good perhaps for finding content (for a casual user) - but then if i was to just keep an eye on 'new' i would find all content.

As a rule the 'value' of voting on these sites is low (if you think logically about it)
it's not about the votes it's about decentralization so as long as i (and i assume others) can find people to 'follow' i don't think anyone meaningfully cares about the 'front page' or the 'popular' things.

To be clear what i'm saying is sites like this are about 'communities' the idea that users can find and follow people that post things of interest to them and mute or block shills and 'NSA' corp spammers.

That this content possibly can't be fucked with by various Corp, Gov and agency shills alone gives the project a lot of promise.