Finding a single server that fits my interests is the first stumbling block. I follow 30-40 communities here, so I need to pick just one focus, which kinda sucks, TBF.

So I picked one, It was too quiet, but it was a start, then I started looking for interesting people. Hardly anyone famous, the few that I did find ended up being the ones that turned out to be creeps in the news, even assuming they were real accounts, which is probably a generous assumption. When I finally found the few people I wanted to follow, they gradually disappeared over time to Bluesky.

WIth their community lines being split per server and no discovery other than randomly finding someone with your tastes while bebopping around on your server. It wasn't a good experience.

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 hours ago

It was good of you for trying. I did almost the same thing, except once I had an account on my little server, I started finding interesting people right away on the explore tab of the app. I followed them, and followed the people they boosted, and generally had a great experience. It sounds like it just isn't for everyone and that's ok. It will just keep growing slowly on its own.

[–] jlow@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 hours ago

I think one of the big things few people mention is hahstags, I do follow a lot of things that interest me via hashtags and found a lot of cool people that way.