I'm slowly gaining a following on Steemit, but I do not generally follow everyone back. If you have something to say then please leave a comment on one of my posts and then I'm likely to check out your feed. If it looks interesting then I may follow. I'm trying to keep the feed page manageable, so I'm not going to follow thousands. Perhaps Steemit will add features like groups/circles/lists to allow us to classify people and create multiple feeds.
I've been doing some #FollowFriday posts to try to help people find interesting users to check out. I think Steemit could do more to aid discovery with automatic suggestions.
I'm very excited about what Steemit could be. Interested to hear your thoughts.
Full Steem ahead!