Check out the global posts, which are the hub-wheels to the right of "community" in the top bar. There you might find some users that interest you. Also, you can search tags. For example, lets say you are interested in "space". Go to the search bar and type in #space and you'll get the most recent submissions. There you could find some like minded people to follow. Also, go to "badges" and check out the users that other hubskiers have "badged". This tends to be a pretty great group of content and users. You can also follow tags which will bring some people to your feed that might interest you. So, there are ways to use hubski to get introduced to people but they aren't the most obvious. We need to change that. Hope this helps. Thanks for the post fuffle.You're given a small list of people to follow when you first jump on (presumably mods, right?)
-Actually no, those are just random users based on being recently active on site. It's not terribly sophisticated. You are definitely right to mention that "finding" users to follow isn't as intuitive as it should be. This will be a major focus moving forward. Currently, b_b and I are going to be watching (in person) some people use the site for the first time and take notes on what is and isn't working. Any thoughts from you or anyone else is very helpful.