True, I don’t pay much attention to the mod log for example, I did not even know it was a thing. I regularly browse my communities and /r/all or whatever the main feet is called. I am here for content that interest me, no matter on what instance it is hosted. I thought that was the whole point of federation.
You might want to try this matrix channel:
https://matrix.to/#/#simracing:matrix.org
It’s a channel for sim racing, but there are pretty knowledgeable people around that can get all sorts of obscure peripherals working on Linux.