Here's a little bit of a few tips on how to find people or posts in the Fediverse (Mastodon, Misskey, Firefish/Calckey, Pleroma, Akkoma, etc.) - this could mean artists, cool people, or whatever else!

0. There's no algorithm, and - in many cases, no full-text search (the merits or downsides I'm not getting into here). So you'll have to do a little bit of work when it comes to curating your own feed. It does make it a little bit harder, but it's worth it in the end! There's a few things you could do too (consider these the bonus tips of using blocks and filters) to not have stuff you don't want on your timeline, but this is mostly about finding people instead of removing bad actors out of your timeline.

1. Use hashtags. Unlike on X (but like Tumblr), you can follow hashtags. Plus, try casting a wide net - i.e. if you're into coffee, try following "coffee", "V60", "Aeropress", "Espresso", etc; for anime, follow hashtags using names in English, Japanese, and romanji. Plus, it doesn't hurt checking the hashtags when looking through other servers, as there often may be people whose posts may not have been loaded into your home instance - using an extension like FediAct, searching the person's account, or searching the URL of the person/post on your home instance will then let you interact with that post to reply/boost/renote/favourite/like/react/etc.

2. Use resources like Fedifinder! It skims through the profiles of people on X. In the case o Fedifinder, if the person's Fediverse account is in the description, location, listed as their URL, or as a part of a pinned Tweet; that person's corresponding Fediverse account will appear. After that, the resource will likely provide you with a .csv file with everyone that it has found, and you'll be able to import that list through the settings.

3. Lurk through your home feed and all timelines/live feeds. This has worked wonders for me. I'd figure home feed would work better for those who already have a decently active home feed going than for those just starting out, but it doesn't hurt to check! Plus, this is where the bonus tips of blocking and filtering come into play - especially when it comes to discovering keywords that you might've missed!

4. Lurk through the feeds of people that you already follow. This is honestly something that works REALLY well for me, and has helped me find a lot of new artists in my case. You will likely have to look through the person's feed on their home instance, through clicking "View full profile" or "View on remote instance"; although sometimes I didn't need to go that far to find someone I wasn't following before.

...and that's it! I've garnered a decent-sized list of people that I follow because of a few of these tips. If there's any more tips that you'd like to share, please feel free to do so!

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