I just don’t wasn’t then to waste their time locally blocking a clear spam account, that should (and usually will be) removed by the originating instance in a couple hours.

I am afraid, that removal of spam account does not necessarily federate to another instance. On Mastodon activities federate mainly to instances an account, which made/edited/deleted the post, is followed from. (Or an instance can subscribe to relay, which exchanges all activities between all participating instances).

Report always landing to your admin may be something good in light of this…

Individual Mastodon (et al.) instances may provide their own status pages. But nothing Mastodon-wide.

You would love kbin.social.

It combined posts from Lemmy and Mastodon, allowing to browse and sort both of these like on Reddit. Mastodon toots were matched to respective magazines (like Lemmy/Piefed communities) based on their hashtags. And multireddit-like feature (called Collections there, and recently reimplemented in federated form by PieFed as Feeds) allowed any user to combine several magazines, Lemmy communities and Guppe groups in a single view.

All of these has been inherited by Mbin (a /kbin fork), outside of Collections/Feeds.

Largest instances are https://fedia.io/ and https://kbin.earth/. There are much smaller, than flagship /kbin instance have been, though, so both will be aware of less posts…

OP wants to sort posts by popularity and unfortunately Mastodon does not allow that :( Trending posts exist but only instance-wide

Brutalinks (HN/Lobsters clone, one-community per instance), lotide (minimalist, RIP), Prismo (RIP)

This probably won’t help you, but there was Flockingbird. However its attempt to index Mastodon’s job offers ended up in drama as Mastodon generally does not like being indexed…

Just use Mastodon.

You probably want to use another Lemmy instance to search for this content.

(and actually Sepia Search is simply a search engine for PeerTube and that’s it. You are still getting the video only after you visit the instance…)

Updated, thanks!

I blame this on an UX blunder.

Bluesky users are taught not to enter their Bluesky passwords to enter different apps, but rather create a different “app password” for each one. Then Frontpage went OAuth which directs users to Bluesky login page. Bluesky brings us a different login page for OAuth use :/ and obviously does not remember that we are already logged in in the same browser.

This of course means that we have to enter a Bluesky password to a slightly different-looking website - a somewhat fishy way to authenticate a user…

Or even 33% as we should count PieFed and Mbin too (this makes 48k MAU overall). All 3 “apps” make one network.

There is Interstellar, which I’m using right now.

You might like https://piefed.social/.

• Usual controversial instances (hexbear, grad, hilariouschaos…) are banned here,
• Posts and replies with many downvotes are collapsed by default,
• You can individually block any (whole) instance, community, users and linked domains. You can also filter the keywords,
• Any much-downvoted user will appear with red warning sign

Something similar is available for PeerTube:

• Platform redundancy by P2P, and
• offload of transcoding and transcription to Remote Runners

Now I am seeing, what .ee and sh.it’s conservative communities has done there…