I like the fact that mastodon.social is the biggest instance, but I would leave for an instance that is paid only, say $10/month, has a cool domain name, and thus can afford to raise the rate limits.

Mastodon.social feels like early Twitter both culturally (good), and fail-whale-wise (not good).

@gruber Yes, the lag of stuff coming to this feed vs my podcast account is quite large, and makes me feel I’m getting an inferior experience. A paid option may make some sense especially as you said if it comes with higher rate limits.