I see Leo implementing a lot of what I like but I blog travel content so I don't quite belong there and don't feel like faking it either for the and stick to my passion even if it limits me. A lot of the functions you speak of are similar things I would like to see as well and would be more appealing to the mainstream user. I think future front ends will allow for normal spammy (short form) social media if they find a way to contain it themselves and not on the main chain like dbuzz and such now. We are going in the right direction but we are not there in the meantime, we need something to give HIVE value quick so the price quits depreciating although I think it has found it's base from the steem/hive fork. But as it stands, it's not ready for mainstream users yet. We have to build in another way in the meantime. At some point blogging on the mainchain will become obsolete but for now it's the main function of hive platform.

I get what you are saying, I know people that write for free on facebook but always comment on how professional my posts looks but won't sign up to share their links on facebook like I do, it's literally the same amount of work so it's a mental barrier for them, we should adapt to that to our advantage. Even the chance at earning micro-tokens for liking and commenting on stuff is of no interest to anyone, even some that I know buy bitcoin. It's just too much of a learning curve in a society with a short attention span. I know a lot of people in real life as a contractor in the oil industry and I never hesitate to ask people's views on certain concepts real or hypothetical...(sometimes ops assist or waiting for permits makes for long shifts and lots of discussing time)

As far as categorizing, I think communities was a good step forward for now I don't care so much beyond that but that's just me...I don't really care what the content is about, more so is it good? is it informative? Do I want more? If I do I'll browse if I have time. Like you I wish I was a dev and could make it come to fruition because I bet it would work but I'm not that technical. But I work on mega 8billion dollar oil production projects and do see many aspects and perspectives of all walks of life, hive or the real world, business is business and no serious investor outside of the crypto world is going to come riding in on their white horse with it's current flaws, we have to come up with creative ways to get the success we are after and priority number #1 is current users and current price per token, long term vision isn't going to fix that right now in the short term, we are the white horse. Hard to do in a community led project with push and pull in every direction. We all hoped for that in steemit and we got stuck with sun until we split, careful what you wish for. Want promo? Hire banfield! fuck there was a lot of blunders here.