Stupid question (maybe), but is username searching across instances kinda... weird? Like the results are deeply hit-or-miss? (just got on a second instance and am trying to re-build my following list... a bit)
@nothingfuture If by hit-or-miss you mean people that appeared on the first instance aren't returned by the search on the second instance, it's possible that no one on the second instance follows that user (and therefore that user has not yet been added to that instance's federated timeline).