@MindF
Welcome! Just find any conversation in the Firehose that looks interesting and jump right in. Follow people you would like to see more of, to create a less-busy Friends column. But don't follow everyone indiscriminately, or the two columns will just duplicate each other.

You don't need followers for people to see you, and you don't insult people if you don't mutually follow. There's no algorithm.

Updated color block list for filters that will stop you seeing posts from any new/current users without blocking/muting each of those users.

Click your avatar.
Click edit profile.
Click "filters" on the left menu.
Create one filter for EACH of these.
Click "public timelines"
Unclick the option to block whole words:

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Apple scions are grafting successfully on my crabapple! #GrowAllTheThings

Mike Luckovich

https://www.ajc.com/opinion/mike-luckovich/

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This made me laugh

https://www.theonion.com/unclear-why-woman-thought-thing-she-just-pushed-out-of-1851392087

The sad thing is the unsolicited pic is photoshopped. That sack isn't attached to that body.

The organization that runs the drive can segregate the suspicious applications and flag them as probably fraudulent, but they don't get to decide to only turn in the voter registration forms they like.

It's not fraud on the part of the organization, only on the part of the person who forged them.

To whoever needs to hear it: If an organization holds a voter registration drive, they MUST turn in all the applications they receive -- even if they think one of their volunteers created fake voters (as sometimes happens when the "volunteers" are actually paid employees of some work-training program for the unemployable, union members who don't give an F about the candidate their union is backing, etc. )

https://www.the74million.org/article/americas-most-popular-autism-therapy-may-not-work-and-may-seriously-harm-patients-mental-health/