as always excellent advice. i spend most of my time here reading posts and commenting. as you noted, find someone that posts things you like or want to know about and start a conversation with them. more than likely someone will read it, like what you wrote and start following you. although i joined the steemit community almost a year ago i didn't start being really active until less than two weeks ago and now i have almost 60 followers which i find mind boggling 😉 so now on my way to whalehood 😜🤣