Welcome to Steemit you've joined during a bit of a crypto crisis at the moment so the value of Steem is quite low meaning the value of posts is quite low. But it will pick up hope you persevere as so many given up on this platform and it has an amazing community.

For a help archive I created to help new users understand how Steemit works click here. Steemit has a bit of a hard learning curve and very little in terms of explaining anything.