Hive account@johnjgeddes seems to be alluding to the chicken and egg problem content creator platforms face when starting a marketplace that is suppose to be duel sided. Patreon solved their issue by focusing in on specific creators who could easily bring their audience to their platform. And they used a semi-campaign on YouTube with their Creators to bring their audience to that platform.

SteemIt in my opinion needs to widdle down their core creator type and target them to bring their audience here in some way. Its all about priorities. A start up must always have a strategy for onboarding users. Saying our platform appeals to everyone with 10 value propositions never works. Even Facebook which is worldwide today started out with just college students. Hope this info helps.