@mngrif maybe it's time for you to take the red pill?

Get a proper client that can request local timeline from an instance directly(this should be your primary form of discovery, federated timeline becoming a fallback mode). Not many of these around unfortunately, I arrived at subway tooter for now. Single out users you like and follow them, not to actually follow them but to bring them into qoto's federated timeline (use lists for people you actually want to follow).

Bonus points for mods: When you see some shady stuff on federated timeline, go to followers list of the account, see who on qoto follows them. If it's a no face, 0 toot account consider banning them to oblivion, cause that could be a form of spam or advertizing.