The hope for steem is that multiple smaller communities can thrive on here in their own niche. But we are not there yet. We are still at phase one... Trying to separate real content from those trying to game the system.

The next phase will be interesting, specially with the updates planned on steem and the long awaited SMTs

Whether it's biological diversity or intellectual diversity. It is vital as it provides a hedge against the current view being wrong and having something else to fall back on