@tommnorm welcome aboard! If you need any help finding your way around feel free to ask, lots of people willing to help you out. 🙏
@tommnorm what helped me is going into your profile and checking Preferences and enabling Ostrich Mode. Gets rid of a lot of the excess elements that a lot of people aren't really interested in. Just make sure you click Save Changes when you do.
Also: counter.social/userguide.pdf should have everything you need to know.