So far the nicest thing I've seen is something I liked from early twitter that ultimately became useless as they switched to algorithms -- the public feed.

Twitter, in the beginning, had a global feed and it was something you could read and look at and find new people on.

My Mastodon feed (or Cauldron as my server calls it) is not as active as my Twitter had been, so I find myself over on the local (Sabbath) feed when I have a few moments. And I have the federated (Crystal Ball) as an option.

And I'm clearly getting followers from the public feeds, too. It's great.