Gave you a follow. I just jumped in too after a decade without social media. I have gathered that you can follow people AND hashtags, and that's what my feed is made up of. The two you're following probably haven't posted notes, or there is an issue with relays. Follow me back and see if you get my notes.
Yes thanks, the follow of hashtags seems to be why the feed had all this other stuff in it. When I signed up, it offered to let me pick a bunch of topics of interest and I just clicked them. Now I realize that causes me to follow hashtags. Which is cool. But, surprised me a bit since I'm only used to following people before. I unfollowed a few of the hashtags to reduce the clutter.