The majority of people I have listed as I follow, generally are newbies like myself. When I give a newbie a follow, I feel it help them in a psychological manner to view that this can work. I admit I cannot afford the votes to go around voting on all of these newcomers. But the addition of a follow did spur me on a bit when I started. There are a few, Such as yourself @davemccoy Which I have also followed for the personal benefit of gaining knowledge. I found this not to be too beneficial. I manually opened the pages of users I was intentionally following to learn more. My feed I do not use very often to find who had posted, it is often full of resteems on topics I have little knowledge of or very little interest in. I found Gina a month ago, and have begun to add those who I follow or wish to follow on a regular basis there, The Gina bot although more often late with notification, Permits the following of others with much greater ease.