If bluesky seems a bit "dead" to you, check in your feed settings that you don't have the minimum likes turned up to see replies.
If you have that on, you're going to be missing the most recent comments that haven't accrued likes yet
Oh, see I think I turned it off because I was seeing people replying to people I don't follow, which was one of my chief complaints about Twitter. Ideally I want to see what people I follow are saying and not others unless they're RTed (or whatever we're calling that).
Sorry, I am seeing people respond to you rudely here. I appreciate your suggestions; I'm just trying to navigate my way through this familiar-but-different site.
Aha, I did have to change that! It was automatically set to only show replies with two or more likes! Fixed it.
Annnd I was going to include a screenshot, but that makes the Reply button disappear above the top of the screen, so I can't finalize the post. Hm.