In Hive it is very important to make a presence, first you make it and then you have it. I think it is like a game where you must go leveling up until you reach the top, the difference is that here in Hive you can’t go alone. You have to make a community. You must participate, reply, vote and you have to do it on the platform. The other social networks are the ones that catapult you to attract your colleagues, friends, readers, curators and others to your blog and the other way around.

Somedays before I comment that I’m an antisocial in social media, and I was. In real life I’m a sociable person, I talk and I interact with many people (but hey, I do not like to be whit crowds of people) but talk by phone, write or read messages, it seems to me the most boring thing in the world. Because what for? Tomorrow or later I will tell or comment in person. But no… The people emigrate, move away, change the place of work, everybody is locked down, the quarantine and more reasons take me away from people I love or like to talk to.

Some years ago and about some of this reasons my phone became my best friend and it is why I can’t live without Whatsapp for a day (It causes me anxiety, but believe me don’t be like that hahaha) and now it is more because everything is online and the need to want to relate to other people attacked me. But I ain’t gonna lie, sometimes I’m too lazy for it and I don’t write it back to anybody unless it is a punctual thing. Generally I’m on my phone doing 10 things at the same time.

When I got to Hive I started to see about the communities, tribes, other groups and niches that exist and investigating and reading it is how I start to understand some things:

#1 Communities help us to segregate our publications and it helps to get the right audience.
#2 There are communities that are very jealous that wish their communities grown by themself.
#3 There are communities that like to share with others the little or much they have in common.
#4 We can decide in which or many communities we want to join.
#5 The most important thing is to demonstrate that it matters to you.
#6 To make a community you have to interact.

It is very hard to be hypocrite and in addition Hive doesn’t give you a reason for being like that, each comment is sincere and full-bodied, because if you don’t have anything good to say or it is empty it is possible that you lose reputation or “leveling down”.

I thank Hive for having so many human people, for helping to create good relationships, for helping others, for creating initiatives that take us out of our comfort zone and help us for making community.

My communities on Hive that I admire and have to thanks, so far they are:

PowerHouseCreative (Hive and Discord)
TheTerminal (on Discord)
MakeUpPower (Hive and Telegram)
Hivesicians (Hive and Discord)
Hivecon (Hive and Discord)
SoundMusic (Hive)
Live Hive Music (Hive)
Hive-Latino (on Telegram)

and now Loving HIVE ❤ Community

I have more added but these are the ones I relate to the most.

Comment, read, meet people, have fun.