Most of us in @teamgood agree that blogging is just mental masturbation, and while it has its uses, the transaction rate of the Steem blockchain can be used for soooo much more.

• Gaming - @chibera seems to be leading the way with this so far. And @steemmonsters though my admittedly limited understanding of it doesn't seem to indicate that it's really gonna benchmark the blockchain's capabilities. @spl is also a great example which, while mostly funded through upvotes and donations, is otherwise independent of steemit.com.

• Marketplaces - @dstors is fairly new, the brainchild of @derangedvisions and others, and is a fantastic idea.

• Podcasting - To a lesser extent, in my opinion. Lots of folks are doing this, which if there's a streaming app that utilizes the Steem blockchain and isn't gonna use @ned's 2 million SP delegation to take the money and run, would make us independent from Twitch and Youtube and others.

I would also add that Steemit is a blogging platform, not a social media platform, and I wonder why it doesn't have a chat or direct message feature. Rocket Chat is open-source. Couldn't something similar to steem.chat be integrated directly into the blockchain's blogging front-ends, thus making it more of a social media platform? Is it even worth doing so?

You've had our vote for your Witness for quite a while now.