I guess, although it does bug me that people legit follow so many folks. Like, whenever I follow more than 1k folks my timeline gets unruly, so I have to periodically prune. Idk how other people are fine with it, but perhaps everyone has their own way of processing information.
As Neil Gamain (spits on ground) once posted, I open my feed and just see what's there while it's open. I also have a mutuals feed for catching up with moots, and some other catch up and highlight mixer feeds.
Sometimes I just go through and look for a specific artist I'm following, see what they've been up to. The following list is partly for curating my main Bisky experience, partly a list of things I want easy access to.
Oh, I do that too! Especially, if I haven't seen much from an artist in a while and then check their profile for potentially missed posts :)