I can feel your excitement between the lines, and I feel something very similar :-)
One of the great points you mentioned here is the idea of encouraging all participants to prove their engagement and commitment over and over again. Status is not earned and then set in stone - it requires a constant renewal and development. That makes the network quite dynamic and also impedes the creation of abusive circles.
This is going to be massive!
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I agree, my previous thoughts on how to combat the abusive power structure was based around vote decay for witness voting, but I like the way the partner structure seems to encourage continual community development instead of just getting people to "auto-vote" you at election season. Making a content driven platform that people will actually want to visit and use is fundamental to creating a mainstream blockchain social media platform. I'm very excited about the potential I see here.
Yes, it's a real decentralized concept where the design doesn't impede the bad but encourages and incentivates the good.