I'm glad I found #QOTO and now I can follow both people at #Spinster and #mastodonsocial. Mastodon.social is a bit like an echo chamber.

@tedvim keep in mind that, while you can follow people at spinster, qoto has an instance silence on them - the effect being that everyone you don't follow is muted. So you can't see the whole reply chain if it includes people from that instance whom you're not following, and they won't appear in the timelines either.