If you add palnet and neoxian hashtags you will get more coins.
If you are not using steempeak.com to format your posts, you are behind the curve.
While you are there you can check out the tribes to see if one of those may get you a more responsive audience.
It all posts to steem, it just adds a second layer.

I think the solution you are seeking may be in my posts on Tuesdays.
Keep working, stop paying.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-the-conquest-of-bread
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alexander-berkman-what-is-communist-anarchism
https://archive.org/details/lookingbackward01bellgoog/page/n5

I read them in that order, but didn't really get it until I read the last one many years after the first.