I still don't know how to use mastodon, I feel like I'm only here to share my stuff and read replies, and less so any kind of discovery of following and engaging with other people's stuff

it seems like there's only a chronological feed of those you follow (which I usually don't like because it skews to the most active people), and a generic feed for your instance (pretty much useless), but no algorithmic discovery thing?

@acegikmo My solution for that is to keep a column just for hashtags of things I'm interested about.
@gamesbymanuel @acegikmo Yeah, I also came over here to suggest this. I use the "deck" version on desktop and then you can have columns of different hashtags. That's definitely how I've found new accounts and interesting stuff lately.
@rfernandez @acegikmo Exactly, I use that layout as well! It's very familiar if you used Tweetdeck.