well, commenting on posts is a good thing as people do start to get to know you. You can earn when people upvote your comments depending how much voting power they have. You can also learn when you write a post and people upvote that, again based on how much voting power they have. The greater the voting power, the greater the upvote can be worth.

Your best bet is to write about what matters to you, communicate with others and focus on having some fun.

You might want to join the PAL discord server... actually there are a lot of discord servers related to Steemit. PAL is a minnow support community