What you're saying is both a lot to digest, and very simple to grasp. As one who began with Steemit in 2016, moved to Hive along with most of the community, but has participated relatively little over the years (too focused on the day job), I remain a noob. There's a lot of detail to get one's head around regarding the platform, etiquette, and what constitutes valuable contribution to the community as a whole.

I've written several drafts of unpublished posts in which I'm "onboarding" myself, as I figure out how things seem to work. Eventually, I came to realize I was overthinking it all. Those posts are getting published eventually, but my stressing over "getting something wrong" is over.

What matters most, to my view, is

• posting authentic content oneself,
• engaging sincerely with members of the community (read as much or more than you post yourself, and respond to others),
• listening to the comments of others,
• upvoting content one finds "good," and welcoming others not already here aware of the value that is here.

What matters is the usefulness to the community of content the participants provide. I don't think we want to inadvertently foster tunnel vision, echo chambers, or navel-gazing.

Truly diverse, challenging (in the positive sense) content, which encourages us all to grow, building a place in which we all sharpen our minds on the content we participate in, is what I want to see and want to help - in my own small way - to create. (And, as I figure it out, to curate. Effective curation and application of resource credit is another thing I'm almost certainly overthinking.)

Mixed content in LeoFinance, all within the overarching theme of cryptocurrency and financial matters, not being solely focused on LEO, per se, is like adding a bit of salt to the ingredients of a meal. It brings out other flavors besides itself, providing depth and nuance and interconnections to information, people, and ideas that would not otherwise be present.

And in that, I am unanimous.