What I've learned so far, for the benefit of other #Elongate refugees:
1) The best way to find people is to browse the #introductions hashtag. It's like walking into a party, talking to people at random, and deciding who you want to know more about.
2) The federated timeline is a firehose of extremely free speech with a very low signal to noise ratio. Your home or local timelines are probably better bets, but if you want to look into the unfiltered heart of the internet, you do you.
@peterdrake also depends on the size and mood of your instance; even federated changes depending on what ppl in your instance boost/follow. I think its worthwile exploring multiple instances for different local and federated feeds, while seeking which acc to follow.
