That is not so hard, because newcomers mostly get support and welcoming messages. Staying here (in the long term) is hard.
Starting is relatively easy. Even nowadays. The hard part comes after that.
Nowadays the hardest thing on the Steem blockchain is to get real human comments under your blog posts. And not receiving any comments could be very demotivating. Especially, if you put hours of work and effort into your blog posts.
I am on the Steem blockchain since 2017.05.17. I rarely receive real human comments, no matter what I do, what I try, what I post, what I write about.
Even if I comment under many people's blog posts, people still rarely comment my blog posts.
I considered leaving the Steem blockchain multiple times. I have even left it a few times, but I have always returned to it so far.
I would not recommend Steemit. There are much better Steem blockchain interfaces.
I would recommend the eSteem application. They are very supporting in terms of rewards. Busy.org (another Steem blockchain interface) is also better than Steemit for earning rewards.
!ENGAGE 50
@xplosive you have received
50 ENGAGEfrom @abh12345!View and trade the tokens on Steem Engine.