That sucks. Mastodon tries to reduce the empty home page problem by automatically following the admin when you create an account, and by having a #followfriday hashtag where people post recommendations of who to follow, but that doesn't really help if you're hosting your own instance.
My recommendation would be to follow the admins of some of the more popular instances. You can find the admin on the about/more[0] page of their instance. They're usually interesting people, and can act as a gateway to finding more people when they reply to others or boost other people's posts.
@Gargron[1] from mastodon.social is always a good choice, as the creator of Mastodon and just being a pretty great person.
@Curator[2] from mastodon.art is great if you like art, they boost a bunch of artist's posts.
Other than those two admin recommendations, you might want to check out the admins of the instances listed at the bottom of the medium article.
My recommendation would be to follow the admins of some of the more popular instances. You can find the admin on the about/more[0] page of their instance. They're usually interesting people, and can act as a gateway to finding more people when they reply to others or boost other people's posts.
@Gargron[1] from mastodon.social is always a good choice, as the creator of Mastodon and just being a pretty great person.
@Curator[2] from mastodon.art is great if you like art, they boost a bunch of artist's posts.
Other than those two admin recommendations, you might want to check out the admins of the instances listed at the bottom of the medium article.
[0] https://mastodon.social/about/more
[1] https://mastodon.social/@Gargron
[2] https://mastodon.art/@Curator