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FediFollows has a list of hand-curated accounts you can search or browse by category: https://fedi.directory/
Browsing your instance's local timeline or the global timeline will give you plenty of posts to read.
Remember that you can also follow hashtags for things you're interested in, so you'll get posts that contain those hashtags in your Home timeline. That's a good way to find people with similar interests. (when you click on a hashtag to browse, you'll see a "Follow this hashtag" button)
There's also FediGroups.social, a server where there are accounts for interest groups that you follow just like you would any other account. When you post on the topic of interest, you mention the group account and it will automatically boost the post so that it appears in the timeline of everyone else who follows that group account--and vice versa, you'll see the posts from others who mention the group.
I'd start with just following some hashtags and accounts you find on FediFollows, then once you start seeing their posts and the replies, you'll find more people.
edit: I had forgotten one other place you can browse through categories to find accounts: https://communitywiki.org/trunk