Apparently there’s another influx of new folks here, so I guess I should give my best tidbit of advice:

You have to really actively seek out people to follow here, much more than you’re used to — and until you do, this place will feel •dead•. Cool stuff isn’t just going to show up. You won’t get many helpful suggestions. No tech giant marketing dept is spending millions to draw you in. It’s going to be •work•. It’s kind of a drag, tbh.

But: your people are out there!! You just have work to seek them out, one account at a time.

@inthehands

Great advice, Paul!

And once you’ve followed a handful of folk, you can explore the followers of your followers with this

https://followgraph.vercel.app/

*if your Followers (settings > privacy) is set to private, you can temporarily set it to public in order to use the tool

Followgraph for Mastodon

Find people to follow on Mastodon by expanding your follow graph.

@inthehands Sadly this looks like it's not compatible with all Fediverse software, at least Gotosocial.