Turns out it works just fine lol. Still need to add people ive followed over the last year to my 'follows' list but yeah
The Blue Slushie Otter 🧊🥤🦦
reminds me i was tinkering with a custom skyfeed filter to narrow down posts from people i follow that mentioned it, but i dont think i ever got it working as well as i wanted, and also ive followed more people since so ill have to update my follow list, bleh.