Wow 1 week for your intro articles!
Hahaha I also spent some time looking and reading at our people's introduction and learning about Hive, so at least I was quite productive with my time. 😂
Regarding building relationships, I think most are being done in discord so if the newbies don't know about discord or couldn't make friends in discord, they'll really have to do a lot of commenting and engaging in the platform. Lately there are chats here in the platform but it's not yet being widely used in most communities.