I think it will take a long time before Steem’s rep will recover from its past. It’s much harder to overcome a bad rep than to gain a good rep.
Time will tell but at the moment no one really cares about Steem. Look at how many are active here. Really active. We have over one million accounts but only a few thousand are active everyday.
that is immaterial really... if you think that FB or Twitter got though those early years without a ton of dead accounts sitting there .. you have another think coming.