Nailed it!

Seriously Alla, the whole Facebook paradigm of having x numbers of Facebook 'friends' to increase your visibility has poisoned online social interaction. It should not matter if you have 5 or 50 people following so long as you get enough feedback and encouragement to keep sharing your creativity.

People have to be able interact in a meaningful way not just mindlessly upvote, downvote or worse not vote at all. Steemit is a creativity platform. It is designed to be able to easily share content, ideas, videos, music etc etc. To get the most benefit from it you have to interact. That does not mean you have to produce top notch videos every single day (still in awe how you manage to make so many) but you should interact either in comments or with little thoughts or treatises on whatever you feel to. By mindlessly following 1000's of people how can you ever hope to interact in a meaningful way with them?

Keep it small, keep it real, keep it close enough so you are able to feel.