@J12t @kissane there are a ton of things to be done and a lot of it can be done independently by instances.
EG #CoSocialCa can make lists of Canadian news sources and other relevant interest groups
Spread Mastodon is an example of a shared resource https://spreadmastodon.org/
A lot of the gains are not going to be from fixing some tech, but community and instance level bootstrapping of resources.
Discourse has (for example) an onboarding bot that might be some tech to work on.