@Obscurequokka I still haven't gotten outside @social.privacytools.io because I'm sure how to yet. And the federated timeline scares me. lol. I just know I'll figure it out sooner or later if I put in enough time. So I'm in the same boat as you. I want to follow more peeps.
@Obscurequokka unfortunately there is not 😕
The best you could do is search for bot tags and block them I guess? I just stick to feds like this one that don't allow bots 🤖🙂