(5/?)
Progressive disclosure of feeds, absolutely. I agree that the wilderness of Federated feeds comes last ; )
But I wonder if it would be better to start with Local rather than Home. Which is just tumbleweeds until Alice follows someone, and still pretty quiet even then. Although starter packs would help with this, eg;
https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediverse-ideas/issues/91
Maybe Home could be disclosed the first time Alice follows an account? Then she can flip back to Local to find more people she wants to follow.