I’ve been noticing a lot of back and forth between instances, changes of stances etc. I was wondering if there is any place that just collects what each instance represents from a philosophical perspective. This would be great in helping people choosing an instance before they join, or later if they want to switch to another instance.
I don’t think that would be great.
in reading through the comments I feel a sense of “lemmy pride” that instances have genuine, recognized flavors and that federation works as well as it does for the overwhelming majority of people. this really is the way, methinks. 👍
I feel as if such a ‘list’ being public would only create more strife between instances. Not EVERYONE from .ml is a tankie, some people didn’t know when they signed up and just never left as an example.
It would also be massively biased to whomever maintains the list. Not sure I’d trust such a thing.
I created my account in 2020, waaay before the Reddit API thing. Back then there were only like three instances to pick from
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nah. I have found .ml to be pretty opinionated but diverse since signing up. aside from some minor inter/intra instance strife, its been good.
I think most people eventually get over themselves and recognize the social and technical usefulness of .ml - having a bleeding edge, well federated instance where you find the beehaws, worlds, hexbears and others is… interesting. the flavor of each instance really comes through and you can still curate your own feed as needed.
It would likely be manually curated by an individual asking the people that run the instances. It would hopefully not be interpreted.
I’m Sorry but philosophical perspectives can only be known through interpretation. Ask any two people what a communist is and you WILL get two different answers, obviously there will be many similarities between the two answers but the nuance will be different.
All that being said…
If this is something you really want, I’m sure it won’t be too hard to get ahold of the instance admins to get the answers you desire. And if you make a place, or community or website or whatever to host that information, we’ll, I’m sure it won’t be too hard.
Distrowatch
i wonder if anything could be gleaned from automated scanning of community names and descriptions and modlogs
That could be a really interesting solution.
Also would be good to know which instances are defederated from each instance.