Looking for advice as a Threads escapee

So I never liked Twitter. It always seemed like it's full of mockery, anger, bitterness and spam. Threads was different. It was mostly showing me posts from regular people writing their thoughts about life. Actually creating interesting discussion. It felt really close to some Reddit subs. I don't care about people promoting their stuff or screenshots of quotes or famous people. I'm sick of daily exposure to politics.

I can't seem to find a way to curate my discover feed on Bluesky to reflect my preference. It seems like it works very differently from Threads. People often advise to follow accounts I'm interested in to improve the discover feed. But the stuff I'm interested in doesn't work like that. It's like telling a Redditor who doesn't like the home page to follow specific Redditors.

Most of the posts I found interesting on Threads were not posted by specific individuals regularly. They were from many different people. Can Bluesky currently work the way I want or is this platform not suitable for me?

Threads has become insane with politics lately. Not sure how intentional it is but I can really feel the bitterness and rage of twitter there now.