@Natanox @PeterLG “known good instances" is extremely hard to define, because different people have different needs & safety requirements.

It's just like people going “google mastodon -> mastodon.social -> sign up”

Perhaps the language could be changed, but when the software's reputation is built on people's first experiences, there does need to be some control over that experience, and the instances list just wasn't working, with some of them just *disappearing*