DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab is a user on toot-lab.reclaim.technology. You can follow them or interact with them if you have an account anywhere in the fediverse.
The federated network as it currently stands certainly presents user discovery challenges, but I'll tell y'all what, putting together a home feed made up of the output of some fantastic minds has been pleasantly effortless by watching y'all post in federated public feeds.
Good job, y'all, give yourselves a nice round of boosts.
(Psst, this should always be a good way of surfacing quality in my estimation, despite historically always seeming to come to a necessary end - when it stops being worthwhile, we might be centralizing too tightly (again) and need to re-examine federation methodologies)
While I'm at it, it's /critical/ that this not remain the primary means of discovery for most instances. It is strongly biased to the loud, the extroverted, etc. We absolutely require a way to surface accounts that are not so visible (yet not trying to be locked down, obviously).