Hey, hey, it's Friday! In a time of lockdown there are less things to look forward to at the weekend, but I know restrictions are being lifted in various places. Just take care as the pandemic is still out there.

Later today I will have my last big power down of Steem. I will still have some there are will consider what to do with that. I will be using my Steem to buy more HIVE, but I may spend a little. Some of my @splinterlands cards need upgrading. I have no real reason to keep going back to Steem, especially as they censored my account. That is such a petty action considering that I have promoted the platform for years and am no threat to them.

I learned this week about the @swap.app service that will instantly convert either way between Steem and HIVE for a reasonable fee. I have already used it.

Let us concentrate on Hive. Both the main sites are showing good growth. My preference is for PeakD, but having choices is good.

I created Hive accounts for a couple of people today when they responded to my offer to do so on Twitter. They are not active yet, but I hope they will be soon.

I have some #FollowFriday selections who are new to Hive and could do with some support.

• @pugdebass is a bass player from Nigeria. He ought to post some proof of who he is, but he was brought in by @starstrings01.
• @nehita is also from Nigeria. @mistakili brought her to Hive.
• @rogerfreedom is a DJ from Barcelona who @santigs introduced. He has already put a PeakD link on his own web site.

Please make them all welcome.

The Doghouse

I have a shortage of candidates for this category, but I welcome suggestions. I am going to feature someone who may be considered an edge case and I leave it to you to decide what support he deserves on Hive.

@shortsegments is posting several times each day and gets reasonable rewards, if little engagement. I have noticed he is converting a fair bit of Hive to Steem recently, but previously he moved thousands of Hive to the @steem-tokens account. Is that an exchange?

Over on Steem has about twice as much SP as HP, so I assume he powered up by selling Hive. He is a heavy bid-bot user there with 100 Steem bids on many of his posts. Some of the posts are the same on both platforms. I am assuming his posts are original, but few seem to read them. Engagement on Steem is pretty low generally.

Perhaps he wants to let us know his feelings about the two platforms. I am not downvoting him, but he will not get votes from me when I have more worthy people to support.

Closing Thoughts

I Tweeted a request for recommendations of good resources for new Hive users. Some that came back were:

• Hiveboard
• Hive for Noobs by @hivepeople.
• Hive vocab 101 by @crrdlx.
• @peak.answers has some useful posts.

New users ought to be directed to such resources as some will give up quickly if they struggle. When I create an account for someone they need to change the keys. I think you have to do that on Hive Wallet. Videos may be a good educational tool. Having a set of links in one place will be convenient to direct new users to. Suggestions welcome.

Hive five!