@kev thanks for the article on https://kevq.uk/how-does-mastodon-work/ it was the catalyst for me to create an account and your profile was my resource for finding cool people to follow!
@freemo it took me a minute to figure it out. Federated posts seem to be entirely bots and NSFW. I’ve spent the last 30 minutes looking up followers of followers of the few real people I could find and then it dawned on me that this is entirely awesome.