@shykitty Hello! Spotted you in a discussion and decided to view your profile.
Fediverse have busybodies that will tell you what to do, but still I wanted to help you out ~~as my royal duty as King of the cats~~ so hope this won't be too obnoxious.
Fediverse lives and breaths on followers and hashtags, so give a look at #introduction one and use it to meet people.
I would suggest to visit https://fedi.tips/ or ask them directly for tips and trick at @ feditips . Hope you will have fun here!