@alex I wish Mastodon offered the option to just hide all bots from the federated timeline. I'd really, really rather not silence entire instances, however the effect of having done so has made NAS' federated timeline legible for the first time in years.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/8293
One day I'll get around to experimenting more with gotosocial or I'll implement Pleroma's API on my own.
I'd investigate Pleroma itself, but I've grown to greatly dislike functional programming, so nah.