>> Hence what you do! This is so important!
Thank you -- your perception never ceases to amaze me. Indeed.
The Local feeds can make or break an instance. Qoto's was broken, very recently, and I nearly dispaired.
It is hard to affect change, one single user no matter how active can't do it alone.
I had some encouragement from the quality posts and support that @Phaedrus gave me -- he knows what I am talking about, as he was the first person to write about
"Make Qoto Great Again" -- and we did, managed to turn the ponderous ship, weeded out some obnoxious accounts, created a small lock at the front door (the new user questions, which surprisingly few respond to; all blank forms are rejected outright , of course.)
This, I am happy to acknowledge, was my idea and suggestion, peddled to the staff and accepted; we all are happy with the reduced intake and the amazing rise in quality of our local feed.
This depends on the contributions of our users -- but sensing a friendly and rich environment, people will come closer and interaction will happen.
On that front things are working well.
Hopefully we make progress in the instance tech side, as I am dissatisfied greatly with mastodon, as I make abundantly clear (it's a campaign, of course).
If we improve, great. If not, m presence would fade somewhat, as I pursue my own aspirations and settle elsewhere as a main account.
The Home feeds, I haven't looked at in recent times, as you can imagine my time is taken with my own active presence. But they are good to discover cool people in other instances.
And I wish to participate on them once again.
My FAB account is now Pleroma HQ for me, and there's ziliion Notis there waiting for review and responses. I love it! 📩
