@pussista Seems like hashtags worked. I see this post.
If you don't follow many people now, it could be good point to start using lists (it would be definitely easier than starting from almost 2k following as I started). You could group by topics, people personally known or groups for less active accounts to prevent them to be burried below more active info streams. This is up to your decision how you divide this. And one account could be added to more than one group.
Federated timeline is always big chaos. Searching via hashtags is good way to find desired topics and hashtags can also be followed - but currently cannot be added to lists.
I hope some of this could help.