Sadly, the engagement aspect on above can sometimes be less avid than places like, say, Reddit. There are a lot of folks on here who like posting and voting, but as you stick around and reach out to people, you’ll build your circle and there are definitely cool people on here who will engage.

Being somewhat new here myself, I’ve had to pick up all these little things through the same challenging process you’re describing. Things come at you a little bit at a time here it seems, often just by getting lucky enough to find some helpful hint in a comment somewhere. Discord is your friend also. That took me some getting used to, but Hive seems to run with parallel conversations taking place on the various discord channels (i.e. 3Speak or Ecency).

I’ve had a long couple days and am crashing pretty hard. Sorry this didn’t answer any of your specific questions, I’ll try to re-read tomorrow and provide any answers I can.

Welcome to Hive!