@kensanata I always have a pane open to the hashtag for my city, which gets some but not all of the local events Mastodonites are hosting, and advertising that seems spammy to me, and local politics.

How would you use a city-specific instance? I've been wondering if setting one up as an alternative listserv/irc/slack would be practical, or if having to log into it with a separate persona would be too annoying. (If no separate persona, what gain?)