Why not just create an email group for those of us who want to join but don't want to add a Telegram? I have a steemit account but I never saw it gain anything so left it alone for a while. Do you guys have any success upvoting each other?
Thanks for your question - the group is fairly new. Based on the system of steemit, the upvote exchange can have nothing but positive effects, that can even lead to specific posts coming to the trending feed. It will gain initial traffic. Im in contact with reddit upvoters, who have their services and systems working for reddit and im confident we can create a similar synergy-effect all together on steemit.