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 You're totally free to mute whole instances to make the Federated timeline manageable. It's what I did, but yes, it'll need to have some time invested into that part before it's looking nicer.
I've muted most rightwing instances and it's looking a lot better now for me.
