Hard to say. The instability is largely caused by DDoS attacks on the service. The strength and frequency correlates almost directly with the market cap of Steem. Though that is just my baseless guess. There are nearly a thousand channels on steemit.chat with, I presume, their own micro ecosystem of poltics and tech savvy folks.
It's an arms race that will never be won or lost.
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