Okay - Lemmy is cool, and is experiencing a boost…

It would be important (while there’s lots of eyes looking on it, especially the folks who will look on June 12-13th) for the instance picker to look presentable.

Something that doesn’t look like a monoculture of one political ideology…

Right now, it starts off with Marxist / communist stuff right at the top (if that’s your cup of tea, and you won’t read, just down vote and move on).

However - I would argue the viability of a reddit alternative is one that starts off as a neutral pallet cleanser: just the tame instance descriptions on page one. If you want a themed instance you’ll most certainly pick that tag or category while browsing.

I don’t want it vanishing into obscurity because people write it off as a fringe gab-like offshoot that got kicked out of other places.

The software itself shouldn’t spiral into only one sort of person using it, while driving away others.

Gotta have some way to slowly turn people socialist :) boiling the frog here, don’t go all RMS extreme and be all gross and out of touch.