Much as I admire the great work the moderators of mastodon.social are doing (and have donated to support them), I think I should put this federated system to the test and migrate to another server to help spread the load a bit!
So I'm going to try shifting to mastodon.me.uk, and in theory my followers should follow me there automatically. My posts, however, won't, which is why it's better to do it earlier than later, I guess!
Let's see how it goes...
qsf
Giles Paley-Phillips