Steemit; Where is the dialogue?

It's been a few days since I first got here. Think the idea of this place is cool, and I found a bunch of good articles, but were is the freaking discussions?!

I've scanned this platform a lot, and by "a lot" I mean A LOT.. Trending, hot, all kinds of topics - but there's only various forms of monologue. Sure, posts gets various amounts of comments, and those comments might/rarely get another comment, but then it dies.

Maybe I'm looking at the wrong place, or maybe the idea of this place is completely different from what I thought would be. Am I missing out on the good stuff or is this a forum were people don't want to get involved in discussion in fear sharing the "wrong" opinions and loose their rep/value/whatever?