A social media platform is all about community building and the first thing for communities to exist and exchange value on a platform is the barrier to entry

Technically steem has no barrier to entry as in there is no fee to join the community ,however users have to wait for a week to get the accounts activated ,as you might know people have negligible patience and need instant gratification.

Apart from the if we are looking steemit as a social platform with value apart from users and value exchangeers we must have investors

So calling out to investors and wide spread media publicity is essential and needed . It is the investors together with users the steemit community can thrive.