I feel the same way about Twitter. On the one hand it has a massive outreach for content creators (whom i work with); on the other hand, every day it moves toward more and more pulls for censorship.

FB i deleted awhile back (even my socks that i used just to see pictures or w/e). I just told people what was up and tried to find them something that worked for them (even if it was just email)

steemit is very niche. It has a lot of potential though, and I think it's an experiment to see what another big platform could look like or integrate. That's the thing about the open source (or near FOSS) alternatives. It's never really permanent, it's always evolving. Trying to get the mainstream (including fam) is like pulling teeth, you might just end up compromising for them. Hope that helps.