I would say join the trail over delegating. Joining the trail (either via steemauto or through our in house bot) will allow you to vote on the content steemstem does but also allows you to vote with all of your steem power. You can always vote proportional to ours, so if we vote something at 60% and you vote 50% proportional then you will only vote 30% on that post which will earn you some curation rewards (which are good to give you more steem power but it will be slow) and yeah.
The reason why I say not to delegate is that yo can then still vote with all of your power, you have better control over your stake, and you grow your account. So preferably, follow the trail.
Thankyou, I found this gut science beatdown in discord. He is will care of stuff. I hope.