I started my own GoToSocial instance this week, and found the same. TBH, from my exported list of about 160 people I from followed on Mastodon, I only re-followed 6.

These were all longstanding relationship - a couple of which started on Twitter when it was OK.

Took ages to produce answer, and only worked once on one model, then crashed since then.

I have friends who live there, and they report the same. They visited us for the first time here in London recently, and were quite shocked by the stark differences.

This happens ( was exposed) at our local foodbank. (London, UK)