I follow everyone I see over 40 or so, with a photo and who makes a good comment somewhere I'm browsing. They do not need a photo if they are over 50. I follow anyone who followed me yesterday each morning. I think I am getting most of the active people this way and not too many not-active.
I'm a big follower on all my platforms because I like everyone and have never had a problem with this strategy. I get a lot more followers this way than I would if I went and checked people out [which I don't have time for anyway].
Unless you are porn or violent - I will like you.
But I never look at my feed. I could not look at it when I only followed 50 people - too random!
I use the filtered feed in steemnow and it is heaven. I just add the parameters I want and then there are the posts! But usually I do not even need that since I get a lot of good comments and replies to my comments on other people's posts. I go to all those people's feeds and engage there and maybe on to one of their commenters. After that - I have no time for a feed anyway no matter how many people are on it.
I was against chats and finally started posting a tiny bit in steemchat. What happened? Two guys are now begging me to upvote them and not in a good way. one of them seems to have lied about upvoting me and about commenting on my posts. He says he did, but I do not see it.
I am not a chatter anywhere and I'm really hesitant to spend time learning discord. I've been twice and got really confused and could do nothing either time. It seemed to people saying hi to each other.
I am curious... if you don't look at your feed, then what is the point of following? To make people feel good? Then they re-follow you and don't look at their feed also?
I'm following to get a bigger following of my own. Those people I follow are active steemers with a rank so that they are not spammers and might engage with me. I don't know how many people look at who followed them, so I don't know if they get any feels out of it.
Some other people definitely do follow me just because I followed them.
I have no idea how anyone looks at their feed with more than 10 people on it here so I disregard it as I said. I do have one guy who only keeps about 15 followed for that reason and I'm one of them, so I feel good about that.
I think the only way I can connect with people here is with good posts that I promote in my other social media. For example I have a good steemer twitlist and we all rt and resteem each other out there. I'm also in about 50 fb groups for sharing steem posts so I do that and get good results.
The other way I connect is by making about 30 comments a day and those are all on people I follow. If they like my comment, they might follow me and sometimes do.
When I get to ### people following me, maybe things will change and people will see me without promos, but I don't know how.
After doing this for about 7 weeks I have followed about 70% of active posters already. So if I go to a post with 20 commenters - I might follow 3-4 and the others I already follow.
I found my feed completely random as to time and topic and I just couldn't use it after the first few days.