Finding an audience mostly. I understand that is how the Internet works, with thousands and thousands of posts a day, an hour, a second even and that we all need to care about community building.
But it’s pretty lonely and seems to take a while to actually discover stuff worth following and worthy a comment, unless one loves being one of thousands using and posting to stuff on the homepage trending page. Navigation, generally on-boarding, is (pardon my French) piss poor an experience.
At least... I discovered busy. I heard you can get a free upvotes from them by posting via busy rather than Steemit?!
EDIT: I meant trending page, not homepage. I’m still struggling to find authors I like to follow, without following what seems to be usual suspects (I mean those with high rep). I like small discoveries.
One thing I found is even when we follow people we never actually see the content of the people we are following because there is so much of it :)
I agree. The on-boarding is definitely lacking. The experience is going to happen away from SteemIt soon.
Not sure about that, but could be true. I know with ChainBB it used to be they would upvote you .
I got it! :)
I tried on mobile and the problem is even worse. Steemit and Busy feeds are NOT optimized for huge amounts of content. Note to self: find absolutely awesome authors so don’t need to follow too many.
Some suggested topics with a curated list of authors each would be a great improvement for us newbies, even if that still tends to lead to usual suspects. I don’t think that requires rocket scientists to make that happen either.
I will see if this is the promised land they say it is. :D