I also thought about Steemit, and how a lot of people here are desperately trying to create a "popular" post that will end up on the "trending" page.

I'll let people know as someone who has gotten trending posts in the past of Steemit when the price was at it's lowest, that unless you have a lot of voters, you can't guarantee to get there. It just happens without you even trying. So just post, comment, and link related information in comments like to your own post on the same subject when appropriate.

Diversity is often good. I went into different topics and got more attention. I post about things that at least have my interest in some way, even if it's not my #1 goal of information to post about.