I've been active on steemit for the past month and the most discouraging thing so far is hearing about how great and amazing the community is, but feeling like you have zero access to it as a new member.

Fortunately, someone did mention that A LOT of the interaction happens on Discord so I have made an account in an attempt to meet more users. Even that has its cons because out of the many channels I have looked into I have only found one with active users who are engaging in thoughtful conversations with one another.

So in the meantime I will continue to browse post looking for interesting people to follow and attempt to build relationships with everyone through comments and the occasional discord group chat.