Get a Free Hive Account
Go to https://hiveonboard.com/ and create your free Hive account in less than 2 minutes. If you have any issues with creating your account, you can find resources for tech support in this article: https://peakd.com/hive-198524/@hivepeople/hivenoobs-6-get-hive-help-and-tech-support-hive-198524
If none of that works for you, here are alternative ways to get a Hive account: https://signup.hive.io/
What To Do On Hive
Once you get your free Hive account, you can play games, write articles, upload videos, express your honest opinions, share your art, music, knowledge, photos or anything else you want. Start exploring the dApps on Hive: https://hive.io/eco
On Peakd.com or Hive.blog you can earn Hive tokens when people like and vote on your content and comments. The amount you can earn is determined by a lot of different factors. These are called author rewards.
You can also earn Hive tokens when you vote on other people’s content. The amount of your rewards is determined by many factors including your stake and the popularity of the content. These are called curation rewards.
You can join a Hive Community https://peakd.com/communities and make new friends who share your interests. There is a Hive Community for everyone. Whether you’re into cooking, writing, design, gaming, HODLing crypto, cats, insects, alien art, Korea, finance, NFTs, photography, fitness, investigative journalism, science & tech, programming, natural medicine or motherhood, there’s a community for you.
And if you can’t find a Hive Community that reflects your interests, you can build your own and earn a percentage of the profit it generates. It costs 3 $Hive to create your own Hive Community. In Hive, people own their communities and no one can censor or take them away. Community owners set their own rules and choose their admins and moderators.
Free Speech
Hive is where free speech thrives. Your data on Hive is not sold to advertisers. You are the only one who earns from your content. There are no hidden algorithms or AI deciding what you can see or not see. On Hive, you decide what you want to see. Hive was created to empower individuals, not multi-national corporations. Most importantly, no one can take away your Hive account. Hive doesn’t control access to your account because it doesn’t store your passwords and keys on a central server.
Who Owns Hive?
Everyone and no one. Hive is decentralized which means that no one company controls it. Hive is run by individuals, groups and small companies and anyone can become a community owner by holding Hive tokens. Hive is kind of similar to employee-owned companies, but is different in key areas. The more Hive tokens you own, the greater your influence over the network becomes.
If No One Owns Hive, Is It Safe?
There are groups within Hive who work hard to keep Hive safe from abuse, plagiarism, illegal content and spam. One of these groups is called @hivewatchers. Hive has zero tolerance for criminal content like child porn, etc. Because accounts aren’t banned on Hive, once illegal content is found, it can be hidden from view on dApps that are connected to Hive.
What About NSFW content?
Hive doesn’t censor NSFW content. By default, Hive accounts are set to hide NSFW content. If NSFW content is your thing, then you change the setting in your account permissions. If you create NSFW content, you must add the tag NSFW and check the corresponding box. If you don’t add the NSFW tag to your content, you will be flagged and downvoted.
Ok, I Created My Hive Account, Now What?
Once you get your free Hive account, we recommend that you watch this video to learn how to log into Peakd.com using the Hive Keychain extension: https://peakd.com/hive-181335/@hivepeople/zpkknkag
Watch this same content on YouTube:
If you’re on a mobile phone, use the Esteem app to log into Hive: https://esteem.app/
There are many different ways to log into Hive including Hive Signer, PeakLock and Hive Keychain, but Hive Keychain is most likely the easiest.
After you’ve successfully logged into Hive, it’s time to write your first post and introduce yourself. Use the hashtag #introduceyourself In your post. Next, join one of the Hive newbie Communities listed below:
Hive Beginner Tips
https://peakd.com/c/hive-198524/created
This Hive community is new and its mission is to provide Hive newbies with clear and concise tutorials that cover all the aspects of Hive from a beginner perspective. @condra is the leader of this group. There is a wealth of information on a lot of topics, and more tutorials are being added daily.
Minnow Support Project/PALnet
https://peakd.com/c/hive-110490/created
Get help in PALnet Discord: https://discord.com/invite/dpGVBcy
The Minnow Support Project/PALnet is probably the most well-established community for newbies. It just recently moved over to Hive as we found out that their posts were being blocked on Steemit. Here’s their website: http://minnowsupportproject.org/
The Terminal
https://peakd.com/c/hive-101265/created
Get help in Discord: https://discord.gg/XZGPGpz
The Terminal is one of the oldest groups that is dedicated to helping newbies. It describes itself as “Your one-stop location for learning about destinations on the Blockchain both Hive and Steem & Discord”.
Learn more about Hive:
Website: https://hive.io/
GitHub: https://github.com/openhive-network/hive
GitLab: https://gitlab.syncad.com/hive
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/hivenetwork/
Quora: https://www.quora.com/q/hive
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hiveblocks/
If you need help with your Hive account, visit these channels for tech support:
Telegram: https://t.me/hiveblockchain
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/xHKUjeC
Twitter: https://twitter.com/hiveblocks
Community-run Twitter accounts:
Inner Hive: https://twitter.com/innerhive
Trending on Hive: https://twitter.com/hivetrending
Hive People: https://twitter.com/hivepeople
Hive Naija: https://twitter.com/HiveNaija
Hive Mexico: https://twitter.com/hive_mexico
This is great. Might you also add the video tutorial I created to the post?
I find your video very useful, however, the https://hiveonboard.com/ site is way easier for newbies, so if that was re-edited into the video, it would work a lot better. Lots of users who tried using signup,hive.io site said it was confusing and they actually gave up. Even people on Hive have reported that they find it confusing and couldn't really explain how to use it. Hence, the reason that hiveonboarding.com was born. It's free and fast, so it definitely should be the first thing that new users see.
See this post about how @hiveonboard solved the scalability problems, as well as the RC and HP problem. Now, new accounts don't need HP delegated. https://peakd.com/hiveonboard/@hiveonboard/solving-the-scalability-issue-for-account-creation-no-more-hp-delegations-required
Awesome that the new sign up site was created. I won't recreate the video, since it doesn't try to be comprehensive in showing all possible ways to sign up, but I'll add it to the actual written lesson area as a live link people can follow. People are more likely to follow live links than what they have to type in after seeing it on the screen anyway. It's great folks are continually making all of this better and better!
yeah, and I don't have control over the final edits, as I just wrote this as a first draft for @roomservice, because he mentioned that he didn't have time to write the Learn section. So it's not up to me to decide what gets included or excluded from there....I'd imagine it gets updated as more people edit it...
Again thanks for this content! 👍
Just pushed an update to hiveonboard.com which will pull this post from the blockchain on the fly when somebody goes into the "Learn" section on the site.
Just try it out :)
So any edits in this post will be reflected on hiveonboard.com without any code changes from my side.
cheers
I'll be continuing to work on it then with additional people giving edits.
Thank you for that awesome support!
oh WOW! Im going to edit the intro part right now! This is freaking amazing. unbelievable! it works!!!!
Do u think hive can make a long run?
we all make or break it. it's in our hands now....no CEO.
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