I created an account redirect to @sporksmith , but then cancelled it for now since I'm getting a lot of interaction on what was to be my last post here, and was having trouble responding from the new account.

Will probably wait for that post to cool down a bit and then do the full "account move"

Shopping around for smaller (less overloaded) instances. I thought I'd found a way before to preview local instance timelines, but can't find it again now.

After searching for it, it seems gargron considers local timelines a legacy feature that he's trying to deemphasize :/. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-ios/issues/221

Even embracing his philosophy of choosing based on instance admins and policies, seeing the local timeline would be a nice "vibe check" of how the server is actually run vs how they say it's run.