How do I get a circle on mastodon (or any other non-thread social media) - Lemmy.World

Hello, I am a person who has only used thread based “social media” their whole life. I never liked platforms such as twitter and instagram and preferred aggregators like reddit, and nowadays, lemmy. I tried joining twitter once, failed, closed my account and went back to reddit. Same with instagram. Kind of glad that I did not use them. I recently created an instagram account because my friends use it’s messaging feature. And because my generation uses instagram handles like phone numbers of old (i am 20). I really want an active mastodon account. There are really cool people there and there are some thoughts I can’t express with the “forum format”. I mostly repost cool stuff I see, but even after joining a reasonable amount of discourse, and trying not to look like a bot, I am yet to get a workable amount of social circle. Whereas I easily fit into places like lemmy. what am i doing wrong edit: Just realized the title looks like a “I wanna be famous” post. It really is not My profile: https://toot.community/@yogurtwrong [https://toot.community/@yogurtwrong]