I don't see all your replies and I have to ask @administrator regularly to run a script to fix my subscriptions to receive your replies. I saw your longer reply on my mastodon.social backup account (re: value of introductions vs. other means) but did not have the leisure to respond.

Personally I don't think that things will return to normal, esp. after @aral pointed out some technical issues that come with subscribing to "celebrity" accounts and massive traffic for each involved (subscriber-) instance. See here if that is of interest to you: https://ar.al/2022/11/09/is-the-fediverse-about-to-get-fryed-or-why-every-toot-is-also-a-potential-denial-of-service-attack/ It has become as seminal to my understanding as the other piece by Manuel Ortega from 2015 on the partial display of cross-instances conversations: https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/gnu-social-federation-against-the-social-model-of-twitter/2015/04/25

Anyway, please keep me posted should you move to some other instance