@juliagersey
Welcome, Julia! Great to have you with us.

When you first join, the place seems awfully quiet. You'll need to follow some people to get your timeline kick-started. Two excellent sites, fedi.tips/ and fedi.directory/ , will help you do that. As well as that, I always recommend following @lisamelton — she'll boost all sorts of good stuff into your timeline.

Follow freely, unfollow anyone who bores you, block anyone antagonistic, be excellent, and have fun!