Thanks go out to @maruitso for steemanalytics.it! Let us use this service to dissect what we are talking about, in comparison to what is discussed by a larger population of users such as on Reddit.

What is Reddit Talking About?

That depends on how we look at it, do we define what they want to talk about by subreddits with the most subscribers?

Or do we define it as what is most actively posted on right now?

Either way we have some lists of topics, and we can see what the activity levels of those topics are like here!

Using SteemAnalytics, Are We Posting Enough About What Regular People Want ?

So lets take 10 top categories from Reddit by subscriber

We do discuss photography, but in general discussion level of the other topics does not seem to match what redditors subscribe to see at least. Lets not look at this by subscriber, lets look at this by topics of conversation right now though:

As with before it seems as though many of the areas of popular discussion on Reddit just aren't given much life on steemit at the moment! What are we talking about though?

If you recall the larger holders made a conscious decision to stop rewarding those who were talking about the platform as much a week or two back, and as you can see by the trends in the graph above, they were true to their word, those topics have drastically reduced in popularity. However our topics of discussion are still not in line with those of larger sites like Reddit (and certainly not with Facebook).

Take Away: we still cater to a very different crowd on steemit, this is after all a cryptocurrency based social media site, so it makes sense that the things discussed here would be very different from say on Reddit or Facebook. That aside, if the goal here is indeed mass adoption perhaps we want to keep these sorts of categorical topics in the backs of our mind as we vote for content. They say if you build it, they will come. Maybe we just need a bit more time to build the right communities to attract the masses.