Here's my one and only piece of Masto advice for recent arrivals, if you have followed someone who is a) an extremely prolific poster, b) writes reeeeeaaaally long posts or c) is a bit of a 'broadcaster' and you'd prefer to keep your Masto feed social.
Every Masto account has an RSS feed. You just need to add '.rss' to their public profile url. So for instance mine is https://mastodon.nz/@runoutgroover.rss
This way you can use your favourite RSS reader to follow them without cluttering up your Home feed.