Welcome to steem @darthknight ! Glad to see you here, I would be curious to hear what made you pull the trigger after hearing about steem and become one of us :)
In terms of dapps, we have quite a few, I run steempress with @fredrikaa, it's a wordpress plugin and comment section to basically allow any wordpress blogger to leverage all the advantages of steem.
Nowadays most of the community is spread around a few discord groups, feel free to add me at Howo#5362, I'll introduce you to them.