@dansup step 0 should be working federation including likes, reshares and seeing the full profile when searching for people imho. All new people including myself have a hard time grasping why this does not work, although there are valid reasons for now I believe. Running your own instance is no joy when interactions are not federated (comments are though). People on big ones might not notice this as much. Also people not seeing my images on other instances from time to time is also not so nice.