I built my follow list slowly over time by seeing who commented insightfully or zapped stuff I found useful.
A faster but not so fancy solution would be to find one person they like and trust and just follow everyone that person follows.
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Exactly, I follow a handful of people I know and like and I add/remove a few accounts that I interact with day to day. Don't hesitate to drop someone who is an asshole. (Same advice applies in real life btw.)
If your feed is sparse, look at someone else's follow list and add a few new peeps, but first look at their profile to see if they are active. Lots of accounts just go dead; I guess they don't do the work to curate their feed and get bored.
Rarely, I will plumb the depths of global and find a decent follow. I like to find active pleb accounts in places with the shittiest currencies and send fat zaps. Amethyst auto translate makes this possible. Props to nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z and all other contributors. 🙌 BTW, any good Turkish, Nigerian, or Argentinian account recommendations?
Zapping and quality replies are stronger signals than likes.
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Found out later today that someone is working on importing follows lists during key generation/client setup: