The way I found people is that I knew one person who was using Mastodon and the looked at who they follow on there and who the people they follow are following

The way I found people is that I knew one person who was using Mastodon and the looked at who they follow on there and who the people they follow are following and so on. There's also the new 'Explore' feature introduced in this release. It will take maybe a week or two until enough people enable it, but it might be what you're looking for[1]. 1 - https://mastodon.social/explore https://mastodon.social/explore P.S. This works on any instance running 2.7 where at least one user has the Directory feature enabled, just add '/explore' to the instance root URL.