A few of my thoughts....
Many are talking about that steem needs more time to reach mass adoption and be successful and that we have to try hard to create good content.

At the moment there are a lot of "successful" Posts about Steem intself, charts, development etc.
Did the community of Facebook try to actively push the Facebook Platform? I don't think so. Facebook offered the right features at the right time with the right marketing, which people liked and joined. The community did the rest with sharing and more people joined. Posting about every nonsense bullshit. With the right algorithm usually people with the same thinking were linked with similar post. Profit.

I see steem like a niche blogging platform. Usually people with "different" thinking are using it.
But if you want to achieve mass adoption you need the "sleeping sheeps" because they are the mass. Would a post for example about getting wasted in the club xyz last night be "successful". I mean getting a lot of upvotes? At the moment, I don't think so.

Steem needs a direction where it wants to position itself.

Don't get me wrong. I don't like Facebook and I'm not using it. But we have examples of what worked in the past. So it should be used and mix it up with the nice idea of Steem.

I'm just a noob in steem, but this is what I noticed when using it.
What do you think?

Cheers.

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