I hope Steemit can keep growing. Growth may be slowing and each further step up the Alexa ladder is larger than the previous one. I think it's an exponential graph. The top 100 sites probably have hundreds of millions of visitors, so there's a long way to grow.
The Steemit concept is radical and it will be hard to get a lot of people to understand it. Once all the geeks have joined up you are dealing with less technical people who are happy with what Facebook offers them, plus that's where all their friends are.
Not everyone wants to be a blogger. Perhaps Steemit can also have more social aspects in time that will appeal to more people. I've seen mention of building something like Twitter on it. That's fine as long as we can control the sorts of content we see.
It's still very early days and predictions are hard to make from initial growth. I got excited about Tsu which achieved millions of users in the first year, but gradually slowed and was killed off when the investors stopped funding it. Steemit is not dependent on that sort of funding, but Tsu showed that even the chance to earn money is not enough to bring in the numbers needed.
Not trying to put a downer on things, but we have to be realistic whilst helping to build this thing.
Just keeping a positive view on Steemit's growth. Of course, being realistic is always the best way to see things especially when Steemit is not even a year old. But then again, anything can happen. And it can happen both ways, too. We cannot really predict any future especially Steemit's but it has the potential to be great in its own right, however and whatever the direction the leaders here are taking us to.
The success of Steemit depends on the members and the leaders and Steemit itself as it would to any other endeavor. Collaboration and unified mindset is what we need. There is no other way for Steemit to succeed but all rests on these philosophy.
Thank you for being realistic. It's a healthy practice.