I fully agree with your essay and - just hopped to your discord channel to introduce myself and back. I started a project on February http://steemitburgenlandacademy.wordpress.com to promote Steemit, to offer e regional meeting point but most off all, to offer tips and links to newcomers. This is understood as part of a network. A fellow Steemian, @oliverschmid, created a Steemit Archive (it is specialized on information for the German speaking). In Vienna, @jnmarteau and @manncpt created a Global School to teach Steemit to young people. We are blessed with excellent tutorials in German thanks to some other helpful Steemians. The magic word is cooperation. There will be thrive when we cooperate.