I don't know how easy it would be for the author monetization, but it seems it should be easy enough for the organization of our posts and the posts of others we want to refer back to. Steemit is not mainstream user friendly. If they want people to join to use it as a social platform. I don't see my friends on fb coming here, it's more work than they want to put into social media. Social media for them is about staying connected with friends, hence social.

I don't see it replacing fb, youtube for video storage or pinterest. Maybe that's not the point.