for topic based instances. I was just looking for an updated list the other day.
I've got a pretty good list here: https://kbin.social/m/specialized_instances/t/186667/Big-list-of-specialized-instances
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otter@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
This looks great, and would be a nice place to redirect people for topic based instances. I was just looking for an updated list the other day.
How do you pick which ones to keep and which ones to skip? For example, there are a few film/TV/music instances and there will probably be more soon.
Feedback:
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add some more information on who owns/runs the instances, and maybe show the recommended instance instead of redirecting to it without warning. This page could include the details on the instance, and you could still “highly recommend” one instance
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move the regional instances out from under “other”. This was important to me as a lot of the relevant communities to me are regional (I follow what’s happening in my city, province, country, school, etc.). I have interests in FOSS, science, etc., but I wouldn’t pick my instance for any one of those.
It could also help with latency if users are located in one region, and users would have more control over things like where the data is stored or how the non profit is set up. I like knowing that my instance is setting up a non-profit in my country, and that it is following our local privacy / security laws.
cacheson@kbin.social 1 year ago
Ategon@programming.dev 1 year ago
Instances have been added if they have a decent amount of activity and dont break the programming.dev rules (no hate speech, no illegal content, no lolicon). The ones currently here are just basically ones that I know exist but other ones can get added if someone sends me links to them or an issue gets opened on the repository
Sure I could adapt it a bit to do that. I can show info on one and then add in a refresh button to get a new instance in that category or something similar.
And sure I can move regional into their own category
otter@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Sounds great, looking forward to seeing how this develops :)
Ategon@programming.dev 1 year ago
Letting you know that I pushed an update to the site. Shows a preview of a site with description, uptime, users amount, communities amount, where its hosted, and software instead of sending the user to it instantly.
And regional has their own caategory + some other stuff moved around
otter@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
That was so fast, thanks for the update!
I’ll share it around with friends :)
otter@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
You might already have this one, but in case it helps: lemmy.ca/post/3051719
Someone linked this list with more specialized instances