I run a GNU Social (Mastodon compatible) instance for Kitchener Waterloo hackers at https://kwat.chat . I know many of the people personally and consider them truly bright. You're more than welcome to join! (or follow from your instance)
Hey fellow KWian! Looks like the site is extremely slow, I'm hoping that's a temporary issue as a result of posting about it on HN, but you might want to get that looked into if the issue persists.
You're right, it is slow! I have to find out why. Do you know much about GNU Social? Is there a caching feature? Am I missing an obvious optimization switch in the config?