Do you just go to the home/feed and let it be fed to you? Do you have things you follow specifically and nothing else? Somewhere in between?
I only use Lemmy (first sort by All TopSixHour, then Subscribed New) and occasionally mastodon, but that place is kind of empty so there’s not a lot to look at. Back in the day I used to use Instagram every other day, but I would not ever recommend that ever to anyone ever on this planet ever. It was awful.
I like to find gemblogs and try to find indeces to other blogs on the smolweb.
I look through my subscriptions first and then through all but I block magazines where I have no interest in the topics or are in a foreign language relative to me.
On mastodon, i sometimes go to the explore page to see whats trending.