I really fucking wish I could follow other instance's local timelines. I love toot.cat but it's kinda quiet and not particularly about any of my interest. It just feels safe here.
But I'd like to grow my following of folks in open source and art communities and i don't think mastodon makes that very easy :(
@zkat hidden away in the app announcement blog post from last week is a mention of Groups, which will eventually (later this year?) supplant the local timeline
it remains to be seen how this will work in practice, but I'm fairly optimistic about it
@zkat @rey As a newcomer this was my big concern in picking an instance really - the niche ones are fine as long as you only ever wanna talk about one thing. 😅