You can also use some tools for easier discovery of interesting people. Like my mastodon search. I sometimes use it and got few mutuals this way.

https://masto.kukei.eu/

Start with following some person who posts about things you care. Sometimes respond if you think you can contribute to the topic, be nice and soon you’ll get your circle.

Please make some firewall rules so it’s not available in Germany. Once the Germans will see this they will abandon all digitalization efforts and use this as a fax replacement everywhere over here.

If it has it’s totally accidental.

What’s the use case for searching for those kind of symbols? I’ll check if I can tune it for this.