don't judge by the traffic of that info site.

diaspora*, or the whole federation of decentralized social networks (so also including friendica, hubzilla, mastodon, and more; they all are inter-operable too in case you didn't know), is easily larger than steemit. definitely check it out if you want a lot of foss, linux, politics, without all the self-promotion and begging for money. ;)

too geeky though maybe for mainstream adoption. people are too used to the centralized facebook model, can't fathom the concept that people are on different servers and still can communicate, although that's exactly how email works too.