PSA to mastodon.social users
Seriously consider changing instances
No I will not tell you that you absolutely have to or whatever like that, it's not the "mastodon.social sucks and you absolutely should not use it" post
But you might like:
- Actually usable local feed of smaller, topic-specific/themed instance
- Smoother experience and better federation (mastodon.social seems to be notoriously bad at caching content before you follow someone, even if the other instance is already federated)
- Supporting decentralized & diverse nature of Fedi which guarantees its long-term survival
- Having your mod team being some friendly silly goobers that you can easily contact, talk to, and thank for their thankless job (on smaller instances it usually also means much faster mod team's response to reports)