I feel like Steemit is designed(poorly) to be Content Discovery first, unfortunately all the mechanics for discovering content are either broken, corrupted or underpowered.

So it ended up functioning more as social media, but it wasn't really designed for that, so that's why people end up engaging more off the platform. I see social media less about content and more about communication and sharing. Share something here and that might get cha flagged.

It feels like the things it's actually best at is housing applications because the underlying tech is super solid.