Post #544203
2026-03-05 23:44 UTC
A roulette wheel of random instances is certainly a solution, but it’s not a great one, given that there are substantial differences between instances that could potentially impact a user’s fediverse experience, such as who they’re defederated from, whether they allow nsfw or downvotes, etc…
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@nutomic@lemmy.ml 2026-03-06 09:04
Thing is that we dont have any information about someone who visits joinlemmy, other than the IP address which gives the location, and Accept-Language HTTP headers. So it attempts to give useful suggestions with that limited info. github.com/LemmyNet/…/instances-definitions.ts#L1…