Im happy that things cleared up a little bit for you. Stress and fear of the unknown can really eat one up!
Regarding the fake and real... Well that's a somewhat "sensitive" subject.. If sensitive is the right word..
For example take a look at my display picture on HIVE. Well the thing is I've stopped smoking about three years ago.. I've just never changed the display pic. But what I'm trying to say is one can always and very easily pretend to be something you are not... Which can be good and bad at the same time... More than often entales bad.
You mention somewhere, grabbing an opportunity and milking it... Well I decided to write a post about my everyday adventures while I'm on holiday.. So I take photos of everytjing interisting and at the end of the day I write something about it... But I decided not to post it on that very day. Id rather share one post every week in pinmapple, like ive done these last few weeks. Rather than flooding the pinmapple community for a straight 3 week period.. I dunno does this make sense?
Because if I have to be honest my pinmapple posts have been my best performing posts.. But no need to milk the system🥛👆
I've seen some users post prolifically every day few months in a row during their travels, some at better quality than others, then they just disappear off the radar complely. It's very difficult, to get very good support for those post every day, so really it's much better to do one strong post once or twice a week than many daily meh posts. That way you earn a reputation as a quality author and people switch on automatically when they see your name. Quite a few people on Hive have achieved that. So your strategy is a good one 👍