RE: Does anyone else feel like blogging on Steemit is like talking to a brick wall?
Of course man! A few tricks I've read is to try and write about niche topics - and use the primary tag as a more generic one - if you use Steem or Steemit or Life, Crypto - There are just wayyyyy too many others using the same - so when someone searches steem they have a 1 hour feed of 1,000 posts - but when someone searches "politics" or "wall" or just anything that doesn't get a huge feed - people who search "wall" for example may get 25 results and people wanting to read abort "walls" will likely read or at least see your post -
There is a good breakdown list updated daily of the top 200 tags and the tags most seem, tags that generate most revenues etc - try to stay away from using steem, or steemit as the main tag as it will never get seen unless by your followers -
I like the initiative though - there are other just like it to promote unseen great content - maybe take a look at how they use the system to help people out - Just my thoughts
Using less popular main tags is actually a great advice. I've often used those popular tags as my main one, but then my posts get lost in the masses.