The total number looks nice but doesn't say much about the effective retention :-)
FB has a retention of 70%, Instagram 40%, Twitter 23%. Steemit has gone down to 12% now, even though many new apps have been implemented lately.
All eyes are on SMTs though, the solution to all our problems...:-)
SMT’s are just tools for making things, and require the ideas and people to take advantage. VICE and BOB’s were mentioned by sndbox recently, as highlights, and VICE is a terrible thing to have associated for a blockchain looking for popular adoption, and I’m not even sure either one is even using SMT’s at all.
WE could do a great SMT using the underlying strength of STEEM, but if it’s just small scale developers looking to make more money from the chain/us, idk.
Some of my smarter friends seem to be thinking of taking a sabbatical and working out their ideas for building on a chain that’s not yet got the “reputation” we have.
Steem is 1000% higher quality as a thing, than the best WE have created with it.
I have no reinvested yet, and actually divested almost all all my SBDS, because I do not see the evidence yet that my kids would appreciate me becoming a “to the mooner”, absent critical and honest analysis.