If you're feeling unhappy w/ mastodon, you may need to follow more / be followed more / follow hashtags.
There's no algorithm, so it seems you build what you see.
I don't find this place much different than Twitter anymore (I'm ~1month here, exclusively), except that:
- people are kinder
- it has an edit button
- it has different apps that provide different features
- it has more opportunity to view a wider variety of topics, which only seems to give me more balance