Christopher KruseRandom thought: are there any developer-centric instances that I should be following people on? A negative for running a personal instance is maintaining federation links and missing out on the greater federated network (all federation is solely from my discovery).
Zack@ballpointcarrot @nolan and @sorin are the leads on #MastodonPerf and you should definitely follow both.
@cwebber is a co-editor on the #ActivityPub spec and one of the developers of #MediaGoblin