Oh my… I started to write a small proposal and Discourse recommended some similar topics and I clicked on this one, from 20 days ago, and, uh, how did I miss this?
Thanks so much for these really throughtful comments. They feel profound and pertinent.
I came here, tho, with the idea to start a wiki page/post with “recommended” fediverse instances (for micro/mezzo blogging) that accept new members (immediate or under review) and have a strong moderation policy. Maybe not even music releated (or maybe separated into sections).
I would be really happy to see also reasons or short descriptions of those instances, their particularities etc.
The problem I see with such list is that the fedi-landscape of servers keeps chaning - many instances come and go, so this list should be kept updated.
There’s also another consideration - consent. We know (“our”) part of fedi is big on consent. Do you think recommending some instances here would be non-consensual?
I also had a thought while reading ideas above, to preface such a list with few considerations - one of them would be also “consider expenses (in hours and money) of running an instance and make sure you donate to the admin”.
I’m dogfooding here, because in my effort to promote fediverse to my own local community I keep coming back to some napkin-sketches of such a list and it feels so often that I’m starting from scratch.
Is such a list a fruitful idea?