@TheAuthorGuy I hear you about Mastodon overload --- I just this past week started to deal with the overload by by using (1) the Lists feature and (2) the Ivory client (both on iOS and MacOS).

Here's a screenshot of my Ivory on my iMac. At the top are 4 columns: 1st is Search, 2nd is my News list (which only has news outlets), 3rd is ARS Technica (because I was scrolling through all their posts), last are a list of Java posters (I'm a Java dev, I like to keep up with the Java community).