Perhaps I've always been a lone ranger, which sometimes makes me feel lonely. I'd like to connect with cryptocurrency investors from around the world and share our insights and experiences.
I would say that buying stuff like bitcoin and ethereum would be the smart way to go, and you would be able to find communities for traders on telegram to chat about it as well. Just go to telegram, write on the search bar "crypto trading group" or something and I am sure you will find a bunch of it. I get that it is not an organic way of finding people, you will be forcing it, but at the very least you will not be alone.
For newbies its really better.if they could just buy bitcoin and other top so they can practice there trading skills on this coins and they will not get worried about if they might be scam since this coins are giants in the market. But I may not recommend him to go to telegram since there are so many scammers there. Much better if he stays on trading discussion and altcoin boards since he can learn a lot there.
Better to stay with top assets and continue to study the market, it's not easy since even those coins can be shaken but along the way it will bounce compared with a pump and dump project which most of the time will dump and die after some time. You need to be precise in working on studying the project that you are buying. There are many available coins but only a few will survive, especially when bear season is ongoing. Take time and not to rush yourself in placing your investment.
there's always a good timing, just slow yourself and continue analysing the market and once you are already convinced that you are good to go, then invest the amount that you are willing to risk.
When we are in situation that there's high chance to gain its better to select those coins which have high chance to gain so its better to select those top coins rather than those altcoins which we don't know if there devs will do some good hyping methods to create noise while bull run is happening since its important to see which coin will get a hype when good events slowly occurring.
There's really a good timing on everything so we make sure not to mess around so that we will not missed any possibly chances to gain especially last bull run where many people missed the opportunity to gain since they are easily afraid for possible downfall that unexpectedly happen.
Top coins that follows Bitcoin market movement most of the time provide decent profits, not that much compared with a new coin that really create big pump but better enough than risking with an unknown team which most of the time can create short pump then the project die after, I also agree on that part where timing is important, while value still low and you have a good amount of spare money, buying portion by portion of your chosen asset may increase the chance of making money once the market start to pump the value of the coin / project that you select.