I have also been writing about travel on Hive for a long time and I have understood that you have to be very engaged to make it here. There is hardly any comment related to the content on my posts. Most people comment related to the photo.
To stay here for a long time, you have to be engaged, such as reading others' posts and commenting on them, you will get votes by posting well, which will increase your reputation, if your reputation increases, then the reach of your post will increase, hash tags should be according to the post. Need, posting your content in the right community.
And yes this platform is photobased, probably hardly 10% people would read the content of a post. I have seen that very few people participate in content based contests while everyone participates in photo based contests.
So work with patience, everything will happen slowly.
This is very informative and thanks to you to bring some insight about this. Will try and hold on to my patience and have faith in hive.
Also I'll try and put some efforts on that photography thing.