@kissane I think the best way to make instance-picking more accessible for people is to make it so that instances have a description built right into their representation as a server or whatever, and make it so that those descriptions can have hashtags in them. That way, on joinmastodon.org or whatever, someone could just put in all the hashtags they're interested in and get a list of the instances that share the most amount of those hashtags. Maybe a standardized way to format and present moderation rules and instance values would be great too. Not necessarily something that's like built with software but just kind of a template that everyone can use if they want to to make it easier to scan.
@anarchopunk_girl Totally agree, I think there needs to be a lot more information and a lot of it needs to be better structured. I also suggested elsewhere that fedi is eventually going to need a reputation system, but culture here is SUPER not ready for that yet, with all the drama.