You bring up some good points. Youtube first and foremost is a search engine, second it's a video hosting platform but thirdly it is a community. there's so much more engagement on youtube in the comments section, there's a community tab for people to interact with their audience, they actaully recently got rid of messaging but there was a messaging feature up until recently. People actually go to youtube for education as well as pure entertainment. Most of us IMHO come here to play the game, not because we truly enjoy the platform unless you enjoy that game aspect of it but I'm not comming to steemit to watch something for purely entertainment value or to necessarily learn a how to type skill.

I agree it's incredibly hard to make a video platform, I've seen vidme and many other fail and fall by the wayside.

You mention how Steemit wasn't built to be a social network, your completely right but that said its kinda fucked up how that's what we've made it. Being early adopters and because this is open source and decentralized we all have kind of a voice in terms of what this site is, what type of site it is and we've turned it into a social networking site as opposed to a content site. The only way to earn here is to create and rewards aren't really based onwhat you create just that your creating something which gives no incentive to creating quality content which leaves us all just playing the game. I see lot sof people on here who I like personally but who's accounts have turned into posting stupid pictures or google image pictures several times per hour, there's no quality in that. There's no community in that.

We essentially have a blogging platform that rewards social connectivity, those two things dont jive. Either the entire platform needs to be changed into more of a facebook type format where we can all make friends and connect or we need to actually start rewarding quality content.