Things seem a little strange around here lately for me too. I get almost no interaction on any of my posts lately no matter what the topic is. I even tried to run a contest to give away 10 Steem for a caption on a drawing and only received a handful of views and only two participants. Something must have changed because I just past 400 followers and I get fewer votes/views or comments now than I did when I had 100 followers. Maybe my posts are just shit. I would be okay with that except my thoughtless short posts about Bitcoin/Steem prices get slightly more votes than my thought out posts to try and get a little interaction. So it really seems people are moving away from interacting unless you are making posts about steemit.
I feel you man,same thoughts .. if you aren't friend with bots or pro blogger ,then you are nothing like we..
I am not the only one -yay ...a sad "yay" I guess.
Your posts arent shit @stephen.king989 . You put more time in the posts then I say 60% of users put into thiers. Maybe it is because of the influx of users these last few weeks. Maybe its just because at the biggining people are more prone to help you to keep you on the platform.
I don't know what it is but it is a confusing struggle. I am just throwing whatever I can at the wall at the moment to see what sticks.
You aren't alone.
It's good to know I'm not the only one at least. Things might get better once more features like the "communities" or "groups" or whatever they are going to call it get added and we can target more specific groups of people. Until then, I guess it's just throwing things at the wall to see what sticks like you say.
It is still the begining on this site as a whole so only time will tell. Take this post right now for instance. This is the most feedback I have ever gotten on any posts. So this too was just me throwing things at a wall... And I think this one actually stuck because I am actually spending the day interacting with people. This all gives me some hope.
Ah ha! So calling people out for not interacting works. Good to know. 😁