Yeah that's fair @trogdor. I can see that. I can't even keep up within my feed and I'm not even following 200 ppl. Alot of the problem is the things I'm interested in I can't just search. Sure there's tags but ppl use so many that alot of the tags don't even have anything to do with those topics.. there's alot of trash. For the reason you stated I can see the circles being small and users just staying within thier lil cliques. Perhaps there's nothing we can do about it? The only advice I give new users is stick with it, keep grinding and you will make friends and get more views but that's not even for certain. I have almost 500 followers but sometimes only get 7 looks on my posts. It is what it is. I've stopped myself from getting post jealousy from seeing absolutely terrible, uninspired posts with high earnings and other well thought out ones with pennies. That's just Steemit. Most of the pleasure i derive from the site are the few friendships I've either had previously or have made on here..some of them have been made off site on Discord. Cheers