My advice is to learn why fees are one of the best parts of Blurt, and then completely ignore them. Just make sure you never drain yourself to zero (don't power up every single token).
"Because I am new to the Blurt platform, I don't think my Blurt 3D logo post got as much visibility as it would have if I had had an older account with more followers."
Yeah, your reach is primarily determined by your followers. I recommend linking back to your 3D post in any future content that is related. Also, you can always re-post the 3D logo down the road.
17 subscribers aint bad! I'm one of the top curators here on Blurt, and also one of the top creators... and I have 180 followers after 1.5 years! That includes begging all my followers (been posting as drutter since 2006) on every other platform to join me here on Blurt. You've got 10% of that in your first week, nicely done.
Thanks. I hope I made it clear in my post that I am not complaining about the fees. It's just that over a few years I've gotten accustomed to the mana and RC system so the fees on Blurt take getting used to. The popup window of how much BLURT an operation will cost might be an unintentional reminder for new users. It's not unreasonable fees but I can see how it would discourage some newcomers to cryptocurrency.
I am sure if this site ran on the ethereum or bitcoin blockchain each operation would still cost a fraction of the respective coin. In that view Blurt transactions are extremely reasonable due to Blurt's current low market price compared to ETH and BTC. I get how the Blurt fee discourages the spamming and bloat of the blockchain.
Now that I think of it maybe the Blurt Power APY kind of slightly renews what is lost in the spent side of the equation. The default 75% BP reward for a post gets a little over 2% APY as long as you don't power down. Haven't done the math on a napkin but it seems like the APY for the BP reward pays for the post transaction. Maybe that is the way to explain it to a newbie.