Hi Dustine and welcome to Steemit.
This is indeed a great community, but I must warn you that it can be difficult for new members to get attention here. There are a lot of tutorials which precisely explain how everything works, also if you have any questions feel free to ask me.
By the way I'm currently tasked with searching steemit for active content creators as me and couple more users are building a community of authors. If you'd like to know more you can join us on discord
Thank you for the heads up