How do you find quality posts and create a community on steemit?

I feel I'm having a hard time finding actual people here who write quality posts. How do I reach them, how do they reach me?
I have seen a few posts briefly mentioning solutions for this question, please help me and write in the comments ways that are being tried to create communities on this site or others, I want to join and contribute and not get lost between the hundreds of posts about crypto, general news and ways to make money. Here's a photo of my french bulldog looking for a community underwater. He even lets out air bubbles :P

Thanks !