My advice to new people which I wish someone told me:

Don't bother with verifying (aka NIP05) unless you are Alex Jones or someone likely to be impersonated. It's fairly pointless and you can figure it out later if you really want to. It can be a bit fiddly and mostly pointless.

Don't follow too many people. It can get quite repetitive here and big down your feed. You might be better off searching and following hashtags you're interested in. (And consider following people who post there?)

When searching hashtags you can add the suffix -str (yes sorry this is annoying lol)

For eg if you're into #prog also search #progstr

#books + #bookstr

#kino + #kinostr

#art + #artstr

#fullmovies 🥲

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#introductions