I love getting lost!
I made a telegram account today!
You are doing your thing, I know some parts can be tough, but I do think there is a certain middle class on steem, I consider myself there, so maybe you have to lower the bar a little... but like that dude said if you have more than 500 sp we are the top 1% right now.
See there is a lot of slack in the system still, a lot of space for a billion and more new users. But this is good too because it allows us to accumulate and fail forward.
So obviously there are not millions of middle class, and there are a lot of beggars too, but there are good users. I have found a lot of good content under homesteading, and we don't yet have a dapp there.
The new dapp elegance is all about art and homemade art and crafts, tons of great users there. Have you checked out musing.io? Like yahoo answers but pays in steem! So while I think that dlive (did you know that dtube takes a cut of your earning?) has tremendous potential, I still try other stuff out and focus on users. I see you watching videos and making comments, you are heading in the right direction, being open and honest with us is what it takes!
Oh and I loathe video editing, that's why I only post dlive videos, one shot one video! We keep getting better every video ;)
Edit: one more thing I forgot, you haven't been here in a craze yet! Everybody is slow and sad now, but just wait for the bulls this place gets pretty crazy.