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I’m sure it wouldn’t be deserted if you pushed the transactions per day to it’s limits for a while

Everyone would be like whoa what’s steem

That says a lot.
I fear with HF21 on the horizon, it will become even more desolate. More bots fighting to split the reward pool and less good content as authors move to other sites that actually reward them (Uptrennd, PublishOx, BitTube/BitTubers, etc.)