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The introduction of the newbie task has been of great help for the past month. A lot has been acquired I must say. All thanks to  @starstrings01, @aliento @projectmamabg @eddiespino, and @theycallmedan for making newbies like me a priority, The time and resources they devoted has been of great help.

This task is about dapps.

let get to the questions

WHICH DAPP DO YOU USE AND WHY?
Ever since I joined hive, have been using peakd. The attraction that comes with peakd made me love peakd.

I get to see my feed easily and track my favorite authors easily.

**HOW DO YOU SEE HIVE NOW COMPARED TO WHEN IT WAS STILL STEEM?**

AS a newbie I did not get the chance to explore steem but so far my stay here on hive, there's has been some initiative and support that comes with using hive which makes blogging easily.

There's are a lot of communities to meet more people and acquire knowledge and also games. From my perspective, there's more interaction here on hive which makes it a healthy place.

**WHAT ARE THE BENEFIT OF USING PEAKD**?

Peakd has a lot of benefits. You get to see your worth of voting power.
easy access to stake coins and
easy access to your feed 

**BENEFIT OF USING ECENCY**?

The usage of ecency comes with a reward to boost your post. The more you use ecency the more you get rewarded to boost your posts the more your post get visibility.So using ecency comes with a benefit.

**BENEFIT OF USING HIVEBLOG**?

using hiveblog is  easy to get all keys, see the trending post and also interact.

**WHAT IS 3SPEAK**?

3speak is another phase of hive where you get to use videos. A video version of hive.

It is a platform where videos are connected to your hive account to share . It is an important part of hive because here you get to share videos 

**HOW DO YOU EARN UPVOTES ON 3SPEAK WHAT ARE THE KEY REQUIREMENTS?**

For everything, good quality is required because it comes with a lot of benefits.
To earn upvotes on 3speak quality content is required.

**HOW MANY VIDEOS MUST YOU MAKE TO GET NOTICED?**

To get noticed depends on your engagement and the quality of content you can dispense. With this, there's a high possibility of getting noticed.

**WHAT IS THE BEST LENGTH OF VIDEO TO GET MAXIMUM UPVOTES?**

The important thing is to share the content of high quality and it is advisable to have a video of more than a minute because below a minute is likely not to have a maximum upvote.

**IS IT HARD TO BECOME A VLOGGGR?**
vlogging looks easy because you don't get to write but express yourself well.

Vlogging is like talking the only difference is you get to record yourself. It is not hard to become a vlogger even if it seems. lt all depends on your mindset we push through whatever we put our minds to.

**EVERYTHING SOUNDS GREAT, NOW HOW DO YOU MAKE AN ACCOUNT AND RUN IT?**

After the creation of an account using peakd, ecency, or leofinace. The important thing is to secure your keys which will be used to run the account like making transactions and all

Then an introductory post is required to meet new people and navigate your way around the hive.
After the introduction, communities are available to join in other to engage and have more visibility.
engagement is the key here because it brings more visibility.

To stay on track a quality owned post free from plagiarism is required because owning another person's work without permission is an offense here on hive.

To take permission is to source and that is by using the bracket () to write the link of where you got the used work or phrase 

This initiative has been of great help  and I'm glad I'm part of this. To the team behind this initiative, I say thank you

*Thank you for reading and visiting my blog*