Let's be honest.
Can you even imagine being a completely new user on steemit again?
It was hard back then to gain the following, but nowadays it is even harder! People are registering onto steemit even in this exact second.
Have you seen the current new tab? With so many new people joining and posting content, the new tab is a big bloat of everything.
Your post will probably stay on top of the new tab for a couple of seconds and after that it will suddenly be on second or third page, because there is a really huge amount of steemians creating content. If you don't have any following already, the new tab will probably not help you at all with getting new followers or upvotes.
Being a new user is just depresful!
And those were just some of the posts that were created 5 minutes ago! Can you find yourself there? Having your post "advertised" only on the new tab is probably the worst idea mostly because of the thing I said previously. Your post will just not visible enough to gain any bigger traction!
What you should do is to expand yourself to more places.
You can use the promote button to get into the promoted tab. I don't think it's worth to pay more than 1 SBD for being there as this tab is very saturated too. On the other hand, you will always get an upvote from the 
You can also put some nice comments below people's posts so they will get to know you better. Sometimes you can even mention your own posts without it looking like a spam. However, that only works if you have something more to say about the topic.
I also learned that a lot of people are not only on steemit, but most of the time they hang-out on the discord channels too. If you would like to present your post somewhere, I advice you to go to the post promotion channels on these discords.
WhaleShares - https://discord.gg/t4BhaSB
Looking For Niche - https://discord.gg/CDxhCJG
Peace, Abundance, Liberty - https://discord.gg/7RretyY
SteemLab - https://discord.gg/BbuYGts
SteemVenue - https://discord.gg/xSe73d2
Being new on the platform is just really hard and I honestly love to browse the new tab and upvote some great content, but it is actually very difficult to find these posts.
I am really missing one feature and I hope it will be added in Velocity (hardfork 20) somehow. I would like to be able to choose myself what tags and topics will be seen on the new tab.
Right now you have to browse all the tags at the same time or just browse one exact tag. We should be able to filter it. Just clicking each tag and then checking the posts is very slow, time-consuming and just not fun.
I was thinking of something like this. You would click the button, choose the tags and save it. Then on the new tab you would only see the tags you chose.
We should also be able to add and search for our own tags that we would like to see. On the tags and topics list are only the top used tags right now.
Maybe there could also be a bin button, where we would be able to put away tags that we are not interested in.
That is actually another big problem with tags in general on steemit. People will always use the same ones, because those tags will yield the most upvotes and comments.
I really don't know what to expect from the Velocity update. What do you think will come? Will something like this be available later on? There are so many hidden talents on the platform, but they will probably stay hidden without updates like these. Hopefully that will change very soon. :)
Thank you!
My previous posts:
https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@eirik/paragon-coin-or-the-smoke-network
https://steemit.com/peerplays/@eirik/where-is-the-peerplays-eight
