Commenting is one of the things I also try to stress to new users. I understand when starting it is hard especially if you are not a Blogger and just a user/reader sometime poster. Even as a professional blogger for their account to grow they need to grow a following. Some will just auto follow everyone, I think most people follow other people when they have interaction with them.
I may not have a big number next to my following stat on peakd but I do follow a lot of people via the list function of peakd.
Another thing learned by looking at and commenting on post is you do get ideas for things to do, say or show on Hive when you are ready to start up a blog or to start social posting.
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I have found that reading others posts and then leaving a comment has helped me to get ideas when I was first starting out and struggling to find things to write about.
I was never one of those people that writing came naturally but after leaving a lot of comments and starting to write more posts, it's still not easy, but it is becoming a little more natural then it was when I first started.