Mastodon is regarded as social network for *nerds *just like the rest of services based on ActivityPub. Where are those nerds? I want to find my community.
Most popular posts on mastodon.social’s Explore wall currently have from 3 to 8 replies and with two exceptions: one political post which has 11 and some long discussion in blender artist community which has 41 replies right now. Everything else is just hiking, cats and motivational quotes for gen-x and milennials.
I follow several news organizations, bloggers, activists there. For example you can get Linux news from https://techhub.social/@LinuxToday or posts from Richard Stallman’s blog at https://mastodon.xyz/@rms or the EFF is https://mastodon.social/@eff – of course those aren’t the only accounts I follow, just a sample of ones you might be interested in that have recently posted things.
You can also follow hashtags on Mastodon, that sometimes helps me find accounts to follow. Recently I have however been unfollowing more accounts than I’ve been newly following because my feed was getting spammed with too many things that I didn’t find very relevant.
ETA: you can also follow https://social.growyourown.services/@FediFollows if you are very desperate for random suggestions for things you could follow