Connectivity as part of Steemit experience

There are some new users who see Steemit mostly as a blogging platform.

It can work, but at worst scenarios they are treating Steemit as a place where they just post their blogs and then do nothing else. No interaction outside their own posts, no reading other people, no discussion or commenting.

Sometimes the easy method of finding other people is either Steemit chat or the many different Discord groups on Steemit, like Minnow Support Project. However these are rarely enough and some users are only joining these to promote their own posts and asking for followers or upvotes.

Nobody really likes that.

The best thing on Steemit is the part of it being a social media. However it is somewhat different than most other sites, partially because of the UI which requires some time to get used to, combined with the difficulty to find preferred content for new users.

Putting some work and interacting brings the social dimension for Steemit users, which is almost as good as better than the rewards from posting. _{Especially at the start, when you're not really earning anything.}

Steemit could need methods of being more easily approachable by new users, not only by bringing out the big earning posts on trending and hot pages. If new users are only trying to interact on a limited number of very popular posts, they will easily go unnoticed. Easier ways of finding other new users could be useful.

Finding more authors to follow?

One idea could be generating a list of random posts (maybe with certain criteria) being presented on each popular tag. This could help to bring up some posts without the few seconds they are visible in the "New" feed and could help minnows to get some visibility AND minnows could find some users easier to interact with.
The criteria could be picked, like above certain rep score to keep spammers of appearing on the list or within certain upvote amounts to have a control on how popular users get the visibility.

I'm not sure how well this would actually work, but I would be happy to find easier tools of finding authors and posts of specific kind, without them being trending or waiting on the "New" list.

I know one good method is looking into popular users posting on the specific tag and going through the comments section to see people really into the topic. However this method is not that easy for new users, but currently seems to be the best approach for finding less popular authors on certain topics.

And in the end.. What we do not need is "facebook level" of interactions, where people try to use the system features to attract masses of attention to their zero value posts by forcing "social activity" and trying to rip rewards for it. Like some people have been asking if we could get notifications for being tagged, but I'm sure it wouldn't end too well...

And no, please do not tag anyone.