Very cool to see that more people are recruited! Adoption, adoption, adoption :-)
I do think though, that we have a big bias towards content creation vs. consumption on the platform. Some big names in terms of creators have been recruited (popular Instagram and Youtube users for instance). Those will bring their followers also to Steemit of course. The question is whether it is just an extra medium for the creators to monitize their content (they usually keep on creating on the other media as well), or whether it will actually be the to-go-to medium for content consumption and interaction.
Maybe it is my personal frame of reference, but I think most new people (including myself) come to Steemit, primarily not to consume content, but create it and make some money out of that. When that actually turns out to be not as easy as they thought, they leave.
People that stay and give it time discover how great the community is and their 'I am here to create and make money/I am here to consume and interact'-balance shifts more to the latter part.
What do you think about this? Should we 'brand' the platform less as a way of making money and more as an awesome place to interact and consume? How can we tilt the balance so people come here with the right expectations and as a side effect raise the quality of the average post and comment?
Cheers!