o! that's a though one :D

we have done some attempts in the past, my brother @spectral and I:

https://steemit.com/steem/@spectral/growing-steem-to-its-full-potential
https://steemit.com/steem/@clains/horizontal-scaling-of-steem

We decided to take action in this direction:

https://steemit.com/steem/@bitspace/bridging-the-gap-with-steem

But that was almost a year ago (!). Maybe time to take take the lessons learned into a new growth post. We'll see!