In a social media development aspect steem is more like a precursor and the next platform will likely kill it. Especially if it finds a way to deal with the whale monoploy.
Steemits developers are a bit to relaxed to be serious about he long term growth steemit will require to stay relevant. I mean its been almost a year and still no SMART MEDIA TOKEN framework nor any actual SMT on the steem blockchain.
Yep. Steemit.com is myspace. The next big thing will show up soon and overtake steemit