I hear you on the random votes and shit by people on content that doesn’t seem to warrant it. It’s just how it goes around here. What we don’t know is there are a lot of alternate accounts that the big folks have and they just vote farm for rewards. Comes with the territory.
If you haven’t heard or checked it out, you should check out the awesome community called The Weekend. It’s great and you can connect with so many awesome people! I think one of the best things to do is just get out there and comment on stuff with people. The rewards come later but the interaction is what’s the best. There’s a lot of really amazing people that call hive their home on the internet!
I would recommend it, hive, but there are some caveats. Hive watchers is a decent initiative but they get a bit too strong with their enforcement and they just end up turning people away because they also don’t have good communication for folks to try to get them off the list. If you don’t plagiarize you should be good. The other big thing is posting very frequently from the front ends. D Buzz is an exception because it’s trying to be like twitter so they typically don’t get people flagged for spam but that itself is also questionable. If you stick to commenting a hell of a lot you should be good until you get more of a feel for the place lol.
I love exploring castles and it’s awesome that we learned a few years ago that we have one right in our town we live in! It’s one of the most incredible tucked away gems, it’s so cool and fun to visit! Best of all it’s only 10 minutes away to drive there.
Thaaaaanks :) I will check your recommended community.
When it comes to commenting, I do but even that sometimes feels like I am creeping people lol. I have "met" some awesome folks already here, like @ksteem but still it is a little awkward sometimes to start the chatter with accounts/people that you don't know or rather see.
But I guess that comes with the nature of being used to face to face interactions and not being too extrovert period.
It is so much more I am exposing here than I have in my lifespan before lol.
And with my jobs came a good overview of the nature of humans and growing up in a repressive regime where you had to be suspicious and that's what you learned from the moment you were born isn't helpful either when it comes to the online. world 😅.
But interactions like these gives me a little bit of hope and I will jump over my inner hurdles and stick around for another while. :)