There's a real problem on Steemit with new users essentially not seeing any sort of real impact of any of their actions unless they get lucky enough to hit the lotto, a whale notices them, or one of the bot swarms just selects them as a maximal investment opportunity and they get a big post. Not predictable, not consistent, and ultimately not really rewarding.

Steemit as a social network platform is, in some pretty significant ways, anti-new user.

Both Trending and New are feeds which are not particularly useful, and that's a shame.