@hylianknight, welcome to Steemit. It is cool to hear that Steemit helped remove some of the barriers for you entering the social media world.

Steemit is a great community, not unfortunately there can be some toxic moments. But keep you head high and keep pressing forward!
I give this advice to new members of our community.

• When you write post, write good quality posts.
• Meet new people by commenting on other people's blogs.

If you do those things well, then you will grow you following.

Let me know if you have any questions. I want to help out as much as I can.