@feditips

> "However, the easiest method for me is to just go to the explore/local/federated pages of other instances directly."

What I meant with this is discovering new users and content.

I have a single user instance, which means that I need to interact with others before my instance gets some content from other instances. Hard to find new content without interaction, basically.

But the downside of directly browsing an instance is that the reply and follow buttons don't work.