Welcome back! You probably have a lot of “dead followers” from back in the Steemit days, but honestly I think a lot of mine were bots and inactive accounts from the start back then. There’s still a small but solid active community and I do think things have changed for the better.
I just recently bought Nomad Sculpt to expand my creative horizons but haven’t sat down & played around with it yet. Your sculpts look great!
Yes the bots and autovoting was discouraging for me from the beginning, why spend time and write post if nobody really cares and it reached only few real people. I spent last years trying to build the audience on instagram what allowed me to sell my work and make it my job.
Nomad is exactly what I was waiting for. Portable but so many tools and allows to make anything I need. It was even great excuse to buy my first tablet. Play with it when you have a chance. When combined with 3d printer it is incredible how it changes making small editions of collectibles. The problem is that digitally you can polish and change the sculpt to infinity and hard to say, ok it is done ;)