that being said, i don't forsee any protocols or changes to make this a better product than say reddit or youtube, i mean if this wasnt decentralized one of those companies could buy out steemit but they can't so i don't see it improving without mass adoption and considering there's no draw other than repackaged crypto news, the community wont grow. I use twitter to follow currencies and coins and youtube for analysis which isn't great but its better than listening to the whale personalities trying to keep people from selling off and devaluing steem, even with the 3.5 powerdown time i don't see a future in this coin.