I am doing something wrong, since searching an @ to follow them seems to spam api requests (querying ~every instance?) and get me ratelimited.
@bob Every instance right now is experiencing increased load.
@lispegistus I’ve had more success copy/pasting known @‘s into the url of the web view of someone’s account on my own instance, but yeah still eventually running into load issues
a Schelling point for those who seek one