I've been waiting for Kieran to post it, but since he's been real busy, I'll post the podcast he made at the Melbourne Bitcoin Center with educators and developers.  I couldn't make it, as their studio had feedback issues with call-ins, so @kdnolan @blakemiles84 and I are meeting at some point this week to talk about it all:

I'm real excited at how much passion "outsiders" are displaying towards Steem.  They certainly have their hesitations, but you can tell that there is legitimate curiosity and interest towards what we're doing here.  For an alt coin project that is just months old, this really gives me chills thinking about the potential.

We can do massive, world-changing things here, but let's be patient and not tear ourselves down as we build some great.

We can often get caught up in what's going on here in the present and lose sight of the bigger picture.  We see a blogging platform and immediately jump to the conclusion that this is Steem.  We compare Steemit to our immediate competitors, thinking that is the realm we are competing with.  However, I suggest looking at thing a little differently.

First off, these platforms aren't necessarily broken in their current forms.  Granted there are flaws, which some may perceive as being critical, but millions of other people tend to disagree on a daily basis.

People can live with flaws they may not even perceive.  What they really want is something better.  Facebook supplanted MySpace, because it did what it did better than MySpace did.

Do people remember when many thought Amazon was doomed to failure because it didn't do shopping better than traditional big stores?  What happened?  Amazon did it better.  In each instance, people flocked to the service that gave them positive reasons for switching.

Here at Steemit, the incentives are obvious.  However, they aren't necessarily good enough to get people to switch, since what we do here is different.  We aren't Facebook.  We aren't Twitter.  And we are not Reddit.  This site caters to genuine user content creation.  That's not what a lot of people on social media currently do.  There's a reason why Medium is a fraction of the size of the others.

Steemit, of course, is much, much more than Medium, and applies unique social dynamics into our interactions with content, pushing us deeper, when we otherwise would have closed the tab on a Medium article.  Artists, musicians, photographers, all have success here, socially and monetarily, where on other platforms, they'd have difficulty co-existing aside bloggers.  It's a unique environment, but still not going to be everyone's end-all-be-all social media platform, since the others still have their uses and all do some things better than Steemit.  They won't be going anywhere anytime soon.

To think that Steemit is on the same level, or in direct competition with the establish market outlets, is rather shortsighted.  Snapchat didn't compete with any of them.  It did something different, something better, that people wanted.  That's what we're doing.  It's just a much smaller niche currently than something like Snapchat, but it can grow into something much bigger and more diverse.

This is why it's important to remember that Steem is not just Steemit.  Although there are certainly some issues presently, nothing is broken and all of the potential is strongly in tact.  The applications are endless and we have one of the best communities in crypto working together to make it happen.