Steemit only pays a small fraction of users synereo offers to pay everyone. The active user count is what matters and steem has shown no interest in improving active user count. They made it harder for Minnows to get noticed with rep score stopping post rewards and harder to curate when they changed that formula with last fork. So therefore they lost their users. Synereo"s turn in sept. Let's see if steemit can respond when people are disillusioned with synereo.