LBRY is kind of a mixed bag when it comes to being "meaningfully engaged." While there is a comment system, it's not really built for that kind of architecture. It's not really a "social media platform." It really is first and foremost a "media distribution platform," and meaningful engagement is really better pursued using systems which are better at structuring conversations.

They are (according to some inside information that I have) working on making the comment system more distinctly threaded so that more conversations can take place and remain readable, but even as someone who is pretty well engaged – it wouldn't be my first choice for the place to talk about my work.

As a place to put my work? That's a different matter. Especially for video content, it's probably a safer place to put things in the long run. YouTube is on trustworthy and a lot of the other choices aren't as robust, so that is just sort of the thing. If you're a blogger, like I am, maybe a little more questionable because the platform really doesn't offer as many tools for blogging as I would like.

Because the whole thing is open source, however, there's no reason that some people with the proper motivation and interest couldn't take what's available and build a system using the LBRY protocol as the underlying transport mechanism and compete with platforms as blog-centric as Medium. It will just require some work.

Web of trust systems haven't really been properly implemented on any social media platform well yet, in my opinion. But I've been researching and writing about web of trust systems for years, and one of my most recent articles in the field leverages some of the work that I've done in thinking about integrating web of trust systems with the original Steemit platform.

One step at a time. Someone, eventually, will get it right.