(also, is there something else we can call this federated network of servers other than Mastodon because I kinda feel like it's a protocol and not just a collection of servers who are all running the same hardware.. )
I'm probably switching from mastodon.social to another instance later, since the performance on this "main" instance has been going downhill lately.
There's no easy way to do this, you need to re-bootstrap your social graph.