this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2023
21 points (69.8% liked)
Lemmy Support
4651 readers
15 users here now
Support / questions about Lemmy.
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
AFAIK you just add your instance to the list via git pull request, and then it's sorted based on activity. You cna absolutely screen instances, by reviewing pull requests.
But that takes labour, and people are also pushing for the devs to work on the actual server and client softwares, and their instance is overloaded, and...
This is what happens to small projects, whether they be software or anything else, when they suddenly get a lot of attention. Pace accelerates, but the amount of available labour hours doesn't increase at nearly the same rate.