How do people figure out what new people to follow on here.... at this point I've relied solely on -recommendations from @silverwizard -people who followed me
"they" say you can follow your local timeline and also follow hashtags you are interested in and check out folks who make posts that interest you. That's usually how I do it.
Have you never used hashtags links before? It's a straightforward way of finding related content, however it requires people to have some discipline tagging their posts.
Part of it (a large part) is that she's on an instance of 4 people).
She's also on friendica where we have Community timeline and various forms of your follows. But her Community tab is all hackers because her instance is mostly me.
Ha! Yeah, for the Local timeline to work well, you need to find an instance that shares some of your passions. Luckily, it seems to be easy enough to change your "home" instance. And this site helps pick one:
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She's also on friendica where we have Community timeline and various forms of your follows. But her Community tab is all hackers because her instance is mostly me.
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