Welcome to Hive -- no, not part of the welcoming committee either, but I can point you to some of them! Look into @heyhaveyamet AND @theterminal!

As a Hive regular, I can also give you a tip borne from the beginning: your initial allotment of Resource Credits (check out https://hive-now.com/, and just put your username after the last slash) is meant to allow you to write about one post and FIVE COMMENTS per day. Max that out -- that is, do your one post, respond to 2-3 people that respond to your post, and then go search communities for things you are into and respond to the posts and the people you connect with. In other words: you have 40 chances per week to establish connections, and as you grow and continuously engage, someone may delegate a little Hive Power to you so you can engage a bit more. ANOTHER way of handling this: you could skip a day on writing a post and have TEN comments to work with. That would give you 70 chances a week to look for and engage with other people ... that's enough liberty to have conversation!

One other thing: Hive's algorithm rewards regular engagement from you. I don't know what frontend you are using, but I use Peakd because it allows me to schedule posts for days I'm not going to be sitting around writing them (like today or any Saturday and half of Sunday). CONSISTENCY is important on Hive; the platform is growing rapidly and there are a lot of people looking for attention ... but if you put the work in on what you want, you'll get it. Welcome and best to you!