i personally started fedi with my single user instance, just following friends who i knew had a fedi account, and sometimes following the people they reposted, liked, or replied to.
basically starting with an echo chamber and slowly networking a way out.

i think it worked quite well, i don't have a very active timeline, but i know most of the thing in there will be things i loox for, and i feel less like i'm gold digging interesting posts like i could be doing on a big network without algorithm.

but if you like having lots of content, you can subscribe to relays. i think sakurajima has one for example

also maybe you can ask your instance's admins how they did the bubble server thing. i know there are ways to follow a full instance through instance actors but it is often a bit clunky

and the domain name, but that's quite cheap as well.
the most expensive thing is probably the time it takes to troubleshoot X)

IP/Port: 79.117.49.141:5900
Hostname: 79-117-49-141.digimobil.es
Client Name: @sz
Location: Aranjuez, Madrid, ES 🇪🇸
ASN: AS57269 DIGI SPAIN TELECOM S.L.
VNC Password: N/A
ID: 20464854
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