My tip is try to read up on the base like what it is about (the system, infrastructure), make friends in tribe discord to learn about what they are doing on hive.
After familiarising sufficiently, start an introductory post. After which, start interacting with other people's post and make new friends. Subsequently, expand that circle and explore new tribes and their people.
The way you explain it, growing on hive is a slow process and I quite agree with that. There are no shortcuts. You need to build relationships, understand how things works before you can go forward.
Yeah, it needs effort and there is no real shortcuts.
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