Hopefully, you found your way into that... COVID will likely make your life "a more active" one probably, and unfortunately for all the affected by them.
Here, on STEEM, basic stuff did not change much... from a year ago. Still, around the lines you said, but now there's a downvote pool (for free downvotes up to exhausting that pool you start consuming from the normal pool), you have a different rewarding curve... basically, only after something like 10SBD, you start having your full vote power.
For example, I have voted your comment 100%, which only gave around 0.049 SDB, if it would reach 10SBD in value, my vote would grow up to around 0.1 SBD. Not something to be worried about for small fish like us... but if you have a vote of 10$, then you tend to be looking at this kind of stuff of course.
You might have found some huge drama recently because of Justin (owner of Tron and Polo) that bought Steemit inc from Ned. Huge stuff... Many posts are rubist.. but the idea is clear almost everywhere... and we need to stabilize the chain. So, first of all, thanks for being voting on 30 witnesses. If there are people you can influence to vote up, please do that. Would help the community.
For last, and more like a bummer... I have been exploring crypto cards for more than 2 years. If that's something that would interest you, give a check on the ones I am using (usually on the end of my posts). Any questions, just shoot.
Nice to have early adopters back. I have just started in 2017 but because I was also like in a sort of "busy time" in life as you have been. I am around crypto since 2013.