@venomstench post stuff, follow people you like.
if you are an android I would use tusky -- if you are on iOS i would use ivory or ice cubes
take a look at the instances -- see if you find one you like. you can follow people from that instances on other ones
check local & federated timelines, see who is following who, search for topics you are interested
it works a lot like twitter -- just without an algorithm so you have to do a but more work to find stuff you want to see
@venomstench instances are just a bunch of little twitters, being federated means all of the little twitters are connected together and we can interact with each other like one big twitter
i.e. you are on mastodon.social -- which is the big normie twitter and I am on wobbl.xyz which means i am on the fat fur twitter
when you see a domain next to someone's name it is their instance.
@venomstench you're fine haha
you would need to make an account for the instance
https://wobbl.xyz/ make an account here if you want just us in da fat stuff :0
@venomstench oh no --- you can follow people on any instance that is connected. like how I am following you from wobbl haha
the instance thing is just like... picking your neighborhood. you don't need an account for each instance to follow or interact with people in it. you can follow and interact with anyone who is connected to your instance - which most instances are connected to each other