Were you around in the days of Zappl? That was “Twitter for Steem” back in the day. Unfortunately the team seemed more focused on fundraising than development and it folded. Think I still have some worthless tokens I purchased in my bitshares wallet!

I agree Twitter & Instagram style content should be embraced. I think one of the best approaches to propel such projects forward is to refine the displays on hive.blog, PeakD, and other “core” Hive sites that are more long form focused. These front ends should potentially not show content from dApps geared toward a radically different format, have it be a user toggle preference, or create a widget style feed/homepage which separates out blog/pic/microblog/Actifit, etc. into respective containers, sidebars, footers and such.

I do like having a “one stop” site for all my Hive needs, but the uncontrolled mingling of content types and posting cultures creates a lot of unnecessary friction in content sorting, discoverability, and user interaction.