@Lumb @scarly 1. You are following more people, so your instance's problem should clear up even quicker, since my federated timeline would be limited by my lack of following people. So the fact that I didn't have a problem is really strong evidence that you didn't damage the network itself, just your instance's glitching out for some reason.
2. The first thing you're supposed to test is if a bug is reproducible, so when I say it works fine on my machine I'm not telling you you're wrong at all. I'm giving you data to help you decide on what your next approach should be.
3. The world must seem like your enemy, if even my post insulted you, but I swear we're just people (with a few assholes among us), who occasionally try to help.
Yeah I feel you. Tbh I’m more scared to ask for help than anything. The few times I’ve asked for help with pleroma some asshole showed up to condescend to me. 🤷♀️
Might try misskey or hubzilla next but I don’t think pleroma is for me.