The apparent complexity of steemit can be rather a shock to the system for anyone coming from one of the slick, well-oiled and simplified mainstream social platforms.

Anyone you bring to the platform does need a lot of handholding to keep them going.

I have introduced two people to steemit now. One is persevering and getting into it. The other has fallen off after a few posts and may be tricky to win back.

A full-on buddy or mentoring system might help with retention.

The no password-recovery bit of steemit is a particularly hard story to sell to a non-believer 😞