there's a podcast where the podcasters invited people after setting up the instance and talking about it a bit for the basic idea of how things work. I'm really glad they set up their own instance as the entry point.
https://pocketcasts.com/podcast/search-engine/cb2108e0-8619-013a-d7f7-0acc26574db2/the-fediverse-experiment/e099edae-aa41-4777-b1df-7024c6998e28
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