I remember your reaction to sf2 from last year and was a bit surprised that you attended sf3 to be honest...

The bear market tends to put additional gloom on a situation, but I've been disappointed in Steem too... it doesn't seem to be a curation platform, but a vote selling platform, despite having an enthusiastic core community. (Many members of that core community have been hedging their bets by blogging elsewhere... I don't blame them, really.)

I believe the cycle will continue and the same cancerous spam whales that have plagued Steem will invade the very platforms that have been newly created to counter that type of corruption. It's the social media version of a P & D in their eyes it seems... once they've wrecked a place, they'll be onto the next shiny new platform...

Maybe at that point, the end user will become the focus instead of exploitative investors!