This was good. I'm glad I didn't know so much when I started or I likely would have thought it too uphill, and I was lucky to be recognized right away as a singer-songwriter. The hard thing here, though, is that unless you have a huge personal holding yourself, it's nearly impossible to keep any traction; you have to constantly build, even with those already following (and we all know a lot of people leave the platform, too, so there is that).

I haven't cracked the code yet. I'd love to trend one day, but really only desire to do so organically, and that's increasingly impossible as things develop.

But Steemit has been really good to me, and gave me a chance to share my music with a totally new and often incredibly supportive audience, and got me into the crypto world, so I'm a mostly happy camper!