you should join a group like curie or powerhousecreatives . They tend to support one another but to be honest I don't know the full ins and outs of how they operate. I would start with PHC as they seem to be a very active group on Discord. You do use discord right? That's a big part of the process.

You are not doing anything wrong, it just takes a while to build an audience especially since our user numbers have diminished quite a lot in the past year or so.