I made an alternate address where I have all my follows and then mute everyone and see my "network" in a client like coracle (network means your follows and the follows of your follows). If I have all my follows blocked (in my alternate account), I will be able to see only the follows of my follows and to discover new people in my graph of interests. If I see some spammy actors, I just mute them and keep going.

I could do all of this easily if I knew how to use the data vending machines to filter everything instantly but i'm not very technical...