First post on Hive, what do I need to know?

in #questons5 years ago

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I was introduced to steemit relatively early and enjoyed my time there and for a while, it supplemented my income, then I kind of drifted away. I know there was some drama went on and people moved here to Hive. The same person that got me on steemit has told me to come here so with nothing better to do during the lockdown I've logged in.
I'm in need of a crash course refresher course and some basics like why are we now on Hive and not steemit and what are the differences?
I can see all my posts and balance has transferred so is this new cryto in my wallet the same as my steem or totally separate? Basically, do I still have my steem and now also have new funds here or do I have to choose which to keep?

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Long story short:
Steemit was bought by Justin who implements his rules by bribing witnesses, and putting his own witness servers to run whatever HF he wants in case they don't agree. He mutes users, deletes posts and blocks accounts that he doesn't like.
Most people moved to Hive to stay away from that.

All your Steem history was mirrored to Hive, so you have all your old posts and wallet balance here. You simply continue what you started in a new place. Steem and Hive are separate blockchains now with separate tokens. You still have your Steem in Steem.

Thanks, I think it could take me a bit of time to get back up to speed and relearn what I used to do.

Welcome back and glad to see you here. A few starting points and updates. If you used the old steemit login and posting page, the hive posting page is pretty similar. PeakD.com is a secondary front end to the Hive block chain is very similar with steempeak if you used that over on steem. (I use and like PeakD).

Communities are an actual reality almost on Hive, they are working much better than they did over on steem, and a lot of the lessons learned fro the tribe Stuff seems to have been taken to heart. Communities is why I prefer using PeakD.

A couple of the communities you might be interested in:

  • The Ink Well The Ink Well is a @curie curated community supporting fiction writers and poets on steem.
  • Writers IncCreating stories, characters, situations, plots...(Michelle Gents Community)
  • OnChainArtOnChainArt is a Community for serious artists. The focus of OnChainArt is primarily visual art. Digital or traditional doesn't matter.
    • I think this one would fit your art work especially your space ship designs and post.

PeakD makes it real easy to post in the various communities. They have a drop down that lets you pick the community to post in, and then a simple button to also add the post to your blog.

Things are a little bit calmer here in Hive for the time being, most people are trying to get along, and avoid most of the old drama from steem.

I hope you do stay around and continue to write, I did enjoy your stories.

Hi Bashadow, thanks for the info. I'm not sure how active I'll be yet but I'm hoping to get back to writing at some point and finally finish the last of my Alienbutt stories and maybe come up with a few other ideas along the way.
With us being in lockdown I've been finally finishing off work around the house and trying to keep myself motivated and my mental health ticking over so I will just see how things go here.