Well I'm glad I could save you a trip to the steemit search bar, we all know how painful that can be. I think you've gotten the hang of steemit pretty quickly, I havn't bothered to chek out the trending page in probably over 6 months its a waste of time and page load lol. My feed has been well curated over the past few months and is all I really need. I'll drop in some topic tags with new and explore since the full new is overwhelmed with shit posts.

I do pop into the full new tag if i feel like getting rewards for flagging spammers ive just been a bit lazy lately.

Thats the way to go and try joining up with some communities on discord, this is your blog you make the rules, dont anyone let you tell you how to steemit