Welcome to Hive!
Hive is in the process of becoming something, so it is hard to keep track what it is.
Maybe it's the best to find home in one of the communities, to start with.
I spend a lot of time on leofinance, which is the biggest community on Hive. You can find it as a community on Hive, but it also has its own frontend at leofinance.io
They are all built on the Hive blockchain. Some of them have their own frontend, some of them with different 'rules'. Some different currencies (tokens built on Hive, Hive-Engine).
You also have different frontends to Hive itself. You should look at peakd.com, I find it's the best.
down the rabbithole you go ;)
thanks, yeah, i'm coming from $DeSo, which is very similar. blockchain, different nodes can have entirely different types of sites built on top. one of the $DeSo nodes also pulls in Hive content, that's partially how i found myself here.
i kinda just make random content on $DeSo and then interact with the community (mainly asking questions about the viability of using blockchain for social media lol), the node i use most is like a twitter-style site. and i'm starting to do a little coding also though not creating a node, i'm just building a different view on the content from an existing node.
i'll check out leofinance but it sounds like it's finance-oriented so i don't know if it's the right fit but i will still go look! thanks!