I'm kind of forced to use X because to help my sick wife I follow on Long Covid research, people self-reporting improvement and so on. Is there a way to get wh

I'm kind of forced to use X because to help my sick wife I follow on Long Covid research, people self-reporting improvement and so on. Is there a way to get what I want without using X directly unless I interact? Notice that I need to be able to easily "follow" new people if someone I already follow retweets/likes someone new and interesting to me. Or also navigate through chain of retweets and references