thats exactly what happened to me except I did not introduction post, I was screwed by the hard fork and posts were stuck at zero (i think devs paid me back later it was weird) and then i didnt do an introduction post untill i already had followers etc....and posts got atttention, ok maybe its NOT what i wentthrough but i understand...similar...but yeah i feel like i kept powering through getting little attention by just SEEKING OUT whales i figured out u coould comment on whales posts, find a post similar to mine link to it, not in a spammy way, just to say "hey lcheck my post out, " after leaving a detailed comment abo THEIR post and upvoting a bunch of whales posts, they notice and upvote back, just that their upvotes mean alot more