Hi @cluelessinvestor, thank you for your honesty and sharing. It is definitely a really tricky one. I love creating posts of my own and I also endeavour to comment on other people's content and replies on my content.
In terms of replies, one dApp that I have found incredibly helpful to keep track of all the comments I receive on my content is https://engage.hivechain.app/.
Check out the user guide: https://peakd.com/hive/@hive.engage/stay-connected-with-your-hive-audience-and-catch-attention. Thanks to the team at @hive.engage.
For those out there that find it difficult to reply or comment regularly on your content, visit this dApp, it has helped me to be a lot more engaged and in touch with people that take the time to give my content comments.
Tools can help us to give more! ;-)
This is a pretty interesting tool. I can see it being helpful if you start to get a large number of comments, to help keep track of them and respond when it makes sense to continue the conversation. I am using it now to reply to you - I will give it shot, not sure if I need it yet, I usually get only 0-2 comments on a post so it is pretty easy to manage.
Hi again @cluelessinvestor, trust me I know it can be very frustrating when you put a lot of effort into your posts and the engagement from the platform is low. I have been there and still some of posts are like that.
Give it time, you will find your audience, you will find your loyal followers. One of your posts caught my eye.
Keep doing what you are doing, keep writing authentic pieces, with feeling that offer value to an audience and they will come.
Keep rocking on and you will become a rockstar in the community. 😎