I feel you man and don't have any argument for your words.
I do hope there will be enough real participants to make this community function sustainably as the potential is there for great sustainable success for many.
I will keep doing what I can to contribute and participate in a valuable future for this community.
You seem to have so far and hope you continue to do so as this place is better with you.
Best Regards~*~
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Nice discussion. I'm with you, Quinn, on the importance of comments. From the outside, before I joined Steemit, I was really impressed with the amount and quality of discussion. It beats FB and YT all to pieces. I'm still committed to comments (767 of my 780 posts are comments, lol). They build relationships and that's what gets people to stay on a platform. Content is everywhere if you really want to find it. But connection, that's something else.
I think the SteemTrail category-based curation is a good start. It's manual curation and aimed at building the communities under those tags. I don't mind some of the bots, because they help everyone spend all their votes every day. And through Streemian.com, for example, minnows and even plankton can be part of something, as they support their favorite topic-based communities at some base level, even when they are offline. I'm excited to see the communities grow around specific topics. Even on FB, that's where the engagement happens - in the FB groups.
But I really excited, too, about the other applications being built on the blockchain. That, ultimately, is where the real value is. This social platform is just the overlay that allows the system to be tested, in planned and unplanned ways. And for opportunities and development teams to emerge as folks get to know each other and frustrations arise, as each of us are rooting around here on Steemit with our different objectives and perspectives. I appreciate being a planktonic-sized piece of it all.
I agree with you. I also see the social platform as the foundation to so much more. I have already read ideas pop up on here about an airbnb type idea using steem. Just think of all those 'On Demand' services like them but being delivered on a blockchain. That would just be the beginning. The social platform can lay the ground work for endless possiblities
Beautifully written~
I to am grateful to be a plankton in the great sea ;-)>