That's really helpful. I appreciate hearing from someone who took a different path. All my friends seem to have started by commenting a lot.
I hope it does turn out that enough people will have a good enough experience off their introduce yourself post to be willing to put in that $25 within their first couple months, so that they can start to really grow and thrive on here.
Makes me think I'll start spending more time going through those intro posts to give folks some nice upvotes. At this point I mostly read the people I already follow and occasionally find new people to follow in comments and resteems of my friend's feeds. But it may be time to go back to seeking out new people to follow again.
Yea, we all should probably make that a priority. It's one of those things anyone can do and yea, like you I pretty much stay in my circles and just branch out when my current circle overlaps someone new. (Pretty sure that's how I found you, haha)