After poking around a bit in Steemit, plus reading on the "whale wars", Steemit is very much like real life. Some ppl play it nice, for the long haul, some gaming the system.

I look at it like any new social media site. It may take off, it may not. But there is a "land grab" i.e. getting attention, building a tribe/followers.

I pays to develop good relationship. If it doens't work out here, a portion of your followers may join you in the next thing online. That's how I see many people build up large followers over time.

Doesn't hurt to get some coin along the way. :-)

Btw, have you checked out https://dsound.audio for podcasters?