...so I'm one of those guys making things that will further dilute the feed unfortunately.

Actually, I’m a big fan of that. I’m looking forward to the times ahead of us, the upcoming HF20 definitely motivates me. That much that theSteemObserver is coming back.

So... I’ld love to hear more about those new apps which may further dilute the feed. I’m the person who always said ‘Steemit isn’t what you think it is... and that’s a good thing’. I’m much more on Discord though nowadays.

Yet, I think show/exclude apps will be the first thing we will see on the ‘everything bucket’ interface as the data is available on BC level and such filters are rather easy to implement. Beyond that?

Don’t sweat it. No, seriously, don’t. Many will just do their daily round of apps and it will be up to those apps to provide an experience. To use @tarazkp’s term for the feed... the ghetto.

... the idea of Steem as a blogging platform is dead to them

That only ever was tenable a position/platform with n^2. Without that aspect it’s philanthropy and more than that, support without any real transaction. Which gives us merely social capital.

If it doesn’t work for Ev, with much higher shopping window content quality on Medium, why would large stakeholders think that it would work here. Content without transaction doesn’t work and only very few can capitalize on social capital profile building.

Ironically if there were a good search function.

There is... AskSteem. It’s an active bang! on DuckDuckGo already. Just use !steem before your query. But I’m not sure about the query features.