It seems that you don’t curate your followers much and/or don’t follow many people. The timeline is what you make it to be by following a variety of people as there isn’t an algoritm to curate it for you. There’s plenty of interesting content circling around and it’s wholly up to you wether it makes it to your timeline or not.

Try out Ironfox. It can be installed through F-Droid.

I know it’s still in development, but check out Revolt . It’s basically Discord, but open source.

Proton use a pm.me shortening for their services so checkmate, mate.

increase world’s chip manufacturing

With what raw materials?