Discovery: If someone from your instance follows someone remotely, that account is in the instance's database, and can be searched (we have account search). Fu

Discovery: If someone from your instance follows someone remotely, that account is in the instance's database, and can be searched (we have account search). Furthermore you'll see their posts in a real-time public timeline if you wish to view that. If you're just kickstarting a fresh instance and are alone, yeah, you kinda have to browse other sites to find people to follow. But then you follow them (there's also a "remote follow" button across mastodon and GNU social sites that facilitates this) and you get that benefit again. And you find people who the people you're following retweet/reblog/boost (whatever you wanna call it). I mean honestly, it's not like you can immediately find every good account on Twitter either. It's not much harder or at all imo.