FBXL Social

Most social media is at least trying to sell itself but If you don't put any work in then the fediverse will sit mostly empty for you. There is no algorithm to bring people to you or you to people (I saw this post because I saw someone I follow repost it, for example). There's some good lists online which have accounts that might be interesting to you, and the other key thing is to follow accounts you think might be interesting (and unfollow later if it turns out they're not quite for you, but that's the next phase -- you pull things you want towards you and push things you don't want away from you)

Another useful thing is that if you don't want to look for lists online you can search and even follow hashtags on mastodon. You might find people with common interests.