I think that if we are able to organize micro-communities based on that simple premise, we will have a much better time on this platform.
I think they're working on building "groups" for people with common interests, like subreddits.. Not sure how much progress has happened, but iirc, it was definitely on the roadmap
Agree with everything you say, should be interesting to see how "micro-communities" affect this place. I've seen a musician on here say that their content gets way less exposure than on youtube or soundcloud, to which another user suggested this -
medium matters for the message
That's very true, steemit has a lot of posts about cryptocurrency currently since most of the regulars are early adopters and heavily involved in crypto. While YouTube is about music and video. It makes sense that the musician would do well over there..
Micro communities could fix that, and connect bloggers and readers better ..
While all of these things would improve one's experience (and most definitely increase the market value of steem) , we must still be trying attract more passionate bloggers and curators and less people from crypto circles buying loads of steem power and abusing the platform, bullying other content creators etc. And even less noobs who stumble on steemit and view it as some kind of a "get rich quick" scheme, they get disappointed inevitably and bad-mouth the platform