On the Followbot issue: whilst I don't think it's helpful to follow /all/ users on /all/ instances indiscriminantly, picking up the toots of those who've been only recently followed, but have longer histories on their own Instances, would be useful. E.g., @aral seen from mastodon.cloud has only about 22 posts, not the 147 at his home Instance: https://mastodon.social/@aral
This is an automated catch-up feature I think I could endorse.