Welcome to hive! I’m glad that you’re on here with us, it’s a wonderful place full of lots of great people!
I am excited to see you join us, there are lots of great things and people here on hive! Seeing as you are familiar with our predecessor Steem, I would recommend you not post the same content here as you do there. If people see you referring to Steem you might get down voted, just keep that in mind.
One of the best ways to get around and expose yourself to the platform and grow your audience is to find a community you are interested in and jump into peoples posts and start to leave some good comments. Comments are the most important thing new users can do, it helps prove you are interested in the platform. Without comments even people that have been on here a long time will not succeed.
We’ve got a beginner zone, so-to-speak that has lots of important information you can learn from. I would recommend you check it out to learn some stuff about the place, lots of great information is posted there.
https://peakd.com/c/hive-109221/created
One of the things I wanted to do is give you a piece of advice that could make this place awesome for you! Talking with some of the people who have been here for a while, we remember one of the best things we did was find other people’s posts through others or go looking and start commenting meaningful things. If you drop small phrases it won’t get you much attention but if you look at a persons post and leave a great comment, a lot of times they will appreciate it and talk with you. If you continue to do this you will develop a friendship with them and will gain followers and grow your account. This is not an easy and fast process. It takes time but the more effort you put in the more you can be rewarded, with limitations of course.
I just say this in hopes you go out there and really connect with people and grow your account. The more we all do this, the more people will come here to take advantage of such a great place.
With commenting and posting, we consume what’s called ‘resource credits’ and in the beginning you don’t have a lot, you have to earn more. If you want to consistently comment and post, the website https://giftgiver.site/ does 10 day delegations for you to increase your credits to comment or post. Give it a try if you need some! Please feel free to ask me about this if you are confused!
There’s also a great article that can answer a lot of the questions you may have. Please visit it at:
https://peakd.com/hive-198524/@hivepeople/hive-for-noobs-hive-198524
Here are also some great communities of people you can check out! The list is a work in progress so please take them as suggestions but there are a LOT of others besides these!
Crypto/Finance
Leo Finance
https://peakd.com/c/hive-167922/created
HODL Community
https://peakd.com/c/hive-126009/created
Natural Medicine
https://peakd.com/c/hive-120078/created
Gaming
https://peakd.com/c/hive-13323/created
DIY
https://peakd.com/c/hive-129017/created
https://peakd.com/c/hive-189641/created
General posting
OCD
https://peakd.com/c/hive-174578/created
Curie
https://peakd.com/c/hive-156768/created
LEGO
https://peakd.com/c/hive-142010/created
Art
https://peakd.com/c/hive-156509/created
Travel
https://peakd.com/c/hive-184437/created
https://peakd.com/c/hive-163772/created
Writing (poetry, free writes, stories)
https://peakd.com/c/hive-170798/created
Microsoft Excel
https://peakd.com/c/hive-102332/created