I only have 25 friends on Goodreads. Some of them are IRL friends. Some are random people who read somewhat similarly whose friend request I accepted. Some are from when some person from a Cyrillic-using country hacked my account and they added a bunch of people.

I follow a bunch of people whose reviews were interesting and some booktube people since I'm way too shy to send random friend requests to people I don't know.

I'm all over the place with my reading - manga, graphic novels, non-fiction, history, fantasy, sci-fi, horror, thriller/mystery, historical fiction, literary fiction, romance, etc. I don't review much but generally speaking I read and rate a lot (although long COVID has put a bit of a dent in that). I'm always happy to make new Goodreads friends though provided they aren't going to just promote their self-published books.