Jean SnymanAnyone know if there’s a way to judge an instance’s reliability without creating an account? It’s hard to know what #Mastodon servers are safe to recommend to people. Would be great if there was some tool that let you see performance metrics for servers. Is it possible to build something like that? #fediverse #instances #twittermigration
Patrick Walsh@stringlytyped @ChristinaStokes I was finding interesting data on uptime and more on this site: https://instances.social/list/advanced#lang=&allowed=&prohibited=&min-users=&max-users=
@zmre @ChristinaStokes Ah, yes, I’ve come across that site before. Definitely useful. But I wish it showed a bit more info. Like when an instance was first created (or at least when it was first added to the database). And how uptime has changed over time (instances which have been around for a long while but have faced a lot of trouble recently could still have a higher uptime than ones which are less old but have been resilient through the great twitter migration). Also: I have looked at the source but I can’t seen to figure out how instances are discovered. Maybe they are just added to the database manually?