Greetings friend @mobbs, being in other occupations I was missing to read and analyze the perspectives of your wise words, but still there is the need to share my point of view.
I dare to say that your writing is a feeling that I have been having for some time, where the fear of expressing it ended up boxing my writing and stagnating my blog, I believe that doing the same thing and repetitively makes us lose the essence of what we do and more in the Stem content where many see it as something abstract and meaningless.
The scientific literacy phrase you use fascinated me, as well as the passion with which you visualize this content in our mother platform #Hive, we must aim for content that arouse the opinion of users and generate traffic to our publications, which is evidenced by solid comment threads on it.
After reading your writing, I ran to my blog, to my surprise after more than 2 years sharing Stem content I realize that the interaction between us users of science is almost zero, which generates little traffic on my blog specifically and at that very moment I realized the importance of the publication that you share with us, we must change the approach, for one that is more attractive and that leaves a real value to users who make life in this great community.
Thank you for opening our eyes to the mistakes we are making. Regards
Happy for the insight!
I think it's not just about the writing style that affects engagement, but a couple of other things:
The community itself, if it wants to be called a community, should by nature communicate more with each other by commenting and exploring each other's content, rather than just posting then replying to people on their own.
I think it's also a good idea to do this across communities. For example if you do biology posts, you can start commenting and engaging in nature-based communities, or photography. The more people treat this platform like something that is social, the more engagement will happen. We can't just write content and expect people to find it if they're not actively looking for it!