Yes, that’s correct. But I’m not aware of lemmy.ml mods running it is all I mean. That it randomises the instances for newbies on first view isn’t great either.
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IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoI believe they publicly stated they removed .world from it to prevent centralization because everyone was going to a single instance, thus defeating the fediverse purpose. But this is all from memory.
Skavau@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
nutomic@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Good point, I made a PR to use biased random sort again that we had in the past, so larger instances are always shown near the top.
nutomic@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
The logic it uses is to hide any instances with more than 30% of all active users to prevent centralization, just like you say. There are also some other filters like requiring at least 5 active users.
IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Understandable but something needs to be done to lower the barrier of entry of new users joining.