It's like twitter but decentralized and with no algorithm. You follow people and you see their posts in chronological order. It works great once you've started,

It's like twitter but decentralized and with no algorithm. You follow people and you see their posts in chronological order. It works great once you've started, but yeah if you don't know anyone on fedi to begin with you're going to have a rough time finding people to follow. If you already know people who have fedi, follow them and when they boost posts see if the person who wrote the post they boosted is interesting. If they are, follow. Don't follow too many people though or you will have an unmanageably large timeline. I've been on fedi for about a year and a quarter. I started out following one person (@maia@crimew.gay) and now I follow 108 people and have made ~3.2k posts. It works for me and my friends at least and I don't really care about adoption beyond that.