I'm on this platform for only a week and the thing that stuck out the most is the "whale circle jerk". People tend to associate, its tribe mentality and it si to be expected. They were here first and/or invested a lot of their assets into becoming ones. The only hope is that minnows can create their own tribes that can circlejerk each other and after a while they will start merging with other tribes and finally achieve a more equal (but never totally) userbase.

It seems that Steem is just a bridge between Facebooks and Reddits and the social media we all think we deserve. Steem manages to eliminate the company, so the content is decentralised and you don't need to worry about funding servers, removes the advertising companies from the equation by building a reward system in its own economy. I'd say they took care of quite a few problems.
That's step one, the next step is figuring out how to diminish the ugly side of humanity by encouraging users to act in their and other peoples best interests.

Keep putting out well thought out and argumented posts that make you think.