Likewise! You certainly leveled up my experience at steemfest! Looking forward to many more conversations regarding steem and steemit, and perhaps also space amd science, in the future :)

Yes, to me that is the most important question. They already have part of the answer, which is a platform where the users who contribute to increase emgagement also get a token of reward. But we need to think beyond that also in terms of user experience and a sense that time spent on site is time well spent. Again, I think part of the answer lies in communities that are actually social and not anto social, in expanding one's social circles, and lastly: In being incentivised t9 have fruitful conversations also with those one strongly dissagrees with. Where other platforms seem to quickly generate flaming, trolling and hate (yes you van do that here too, but with grater costs).