this complicated mechanics
Many aspects of this platform should be more user friendly.
Especially to algorithm.
There should be content/author recommendations to people, based on what they like, even a random featured author/user with every site refresh.
Maybe there would be more actual content consumers on this platform.
I think the people who want to invest their time on this platform can use the ecency waves feature where people can answer them these complicated questions perhaps. I also have noticed that asking in discord servers can be useful too but in that aspect ecency waves is more easy and useful for people who do not know how to do stuff.