I don't follow people who post about lots of stuff I don't care about. I follow hashtags instead, which gives me a much higher signal to noise ratio than following those people.
I thought hashtags were dead. Does this surface tweets that just have the word, not the hashtag? Can you follow multiple words using boolean operators?
Perhaps it depends on the platform. Hashtags work great on Mastodon.
Some Mastodon clients allow following multiple words using boolean operators although the amount of support may vary depending on which client you use:
