I think the strategy for that probably differs a lot from person to person.
Example, I have good luck following a bunch of active accounts and then narrowing it down as I see more of what they post to start off, then when the feed feels good start slowly adding later.
In other words editing as I go is more natural to me than being meticulous about it at the start when I have little frame of reference.
I bet it’s different for different people.
I followed too many to begin with, and now I find trimming it down is hard. I wish there were better tools available to see how I've communicated and interacted with other people in the past. Once you're past the Dunbar number it's all a blur. More clients supporting multiple lists for follows would be a huge benefit, having categories for different reasons for following.
I can see that too. I probably have some inactive accounts in my follows still, but I also never really followed randomly, I just traveled through the follow lists of the people I already know up here and grabbed a bunch if they just clearly seemed like real accounts at a glance and had posted anything recently.
