what do you think we need to improve the most?

I don't really expect a response and have seen countless people ask important questions or make good points and never get answered, but... Might as well try at least once.

I just read a thread from a friend of mine on here, who said steemit is not working for him. His reasons were primarily low interaction on his posts, and this is something I've noticed as well. Not just on my own page with over 3500 followers but on most of the pages I see, there's very few comments and human interaction that I can see.

I think the most important thing, or at least one of the most important things that could be done is to fix the algorithms.

I'm not sure what they are set at but they feel similar to what Facebook uses which is probably 1% or less according to the research I've seen. Even with such a low percentage of feeds that an individuals content is shown to Facebook still is providing much more human interaction because they have many more users, however... Back when Facebook had its algorithms at around 17% it was a lot of fun posting over there!

After they started reducing the percentages, it just got worse and worse to the point where many people quit because they were basically talking to themselves and had very little interaction, even on huge pages with many thousands of followers.

It seems clear they did this to me because they were trying to encourage people to pay for advertising to get their posts seen more, but it truly destroyed the experience for many people.

I see similar here on steemit, most pages I look at people are basically talking to themselves and get almost zero human interaction. I think many people wouldn't be nearly as concerned about the value of steem in terms of it's crypto coin if they at the very least had people reading and commenting on their pages, yet combine the low value and the "ghost town" atmosphere and I can understand why so many people quit and go back to Facebook or where ever, at least people interact with them on other social media sites.

If the algorithms were put up to around 17% like Facebook had when it was still fun to use, then I bet that would make a massive difference here. Otherwise, I see most of the smaller less popular people getting tired of talking to themselves and eventually quitting cause almost no one interacts with their posts.

This is social media right? Then the idea should be to get people socializing and not feeling like they are alone and talking to themselves.

Another thing you could look at is all the dead accounts, that may be another reason why peoples posts aren't being seen as much because out of the 1% or however many people a person's post gets sent to, many of them are probably dead accounts owned by people who quit, if perhaps you could make it so that new posts aren't sent to dead accounts and only active ones that might help a lot as well, not sure if that's possible or not... But to me it seems like the main problem is just that most of the people I see are basically talking to themselves, even many bigger accounts get very few comments.

I know there is another proposal about rewards and such that may or may not help in regards to more human interaction and comments, but I think the algorithms can play a major role since I saw how fun Facebook used to be before they gimped theirs and how downhill it went and how many pages and people's experiences it ruined after they reduced the percentage that people's posts get sent to other people's feeds. That one thing could make such a huge difference in my opinion. Thanks for reading if you did.