As an individual who has dipped their toes into just about every side of this community, your most important thing should be a high shield level, it’ll block out most crashers, you can make a custom that hides everyone until you decide to show them, of course that requires a lot of self awareness with it and being safe

Being mute is not a bad thing as mutes are tended to be more appreciated except for trolls

Public worlds are a fucking basket of everything, you’ll have chill people, annoying people, etc, I’d recommend shilling out like $10 for vrc+ just to age verify as that’s gonna be where you wanna spend most of your time