tbf, I have done all the suggestions people mentioned here when I first joined. Here are some tough stats, 2 months of me focusing on Tiktok got me from 1.6k to 8k. 2 months in nostr with non-stop engagement in my end got me 0 to 213. I am not saying these two are the same. The point I am making, I came here to engage — out of curiosity, value for value, the people and no community guidelines. However, I cannot deny the fact that it is fairly limited reach. Finding topics that interests me is fairly limited even I seek them out. Yes, I made the effort to create topics of my own, but I noticed unless I talked about politics, freedom of speech or bitcoin or food, my engagement is very low.  Now, I am re-evaluating my presence on nostr.