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What do you look for in an instance? Many different instances with different uses and needs.
Where would I find a way to know if an instance aligned with what I wanted or not? Iโm supposed to personally find and explore a bunch of different ones?
There's the "Join Lemmy" tool that shows a list of instances, you can click on them and see if they fit what you want.
Ive recently stumbled on Fediseer, where instances can give recommendations, censures and hesitations to other instances. every instance also has its own page with their self-description, stats, recommendations, censures, etc. might be a helpful tool to narrow down the potential instances.
That's a good tip, it's a good idea to subscribe to a Lemmy instance that participates in Fediseer (IMO). It helps to keep spammy instances off your own instance hence lower spam posts overall.
A lot of spammers tend to spin up their own Lemmy instances just to spam the rest of the Fediverse, or they'll create a ton of new accounts on an instance with lax admin/moderation to use for spam later.
You don't even need to browse the Fediseer website directly, pretty much all Lemmy instances participating in Fediseer will have the "Guarantor" and "Endorsements" links in the sidebar of their homepage.
join-lemmy.org/ has a list of instances.