Death by user count?

The join-lemmy site no longer shows this instance's card because it's below the active user threshold. How are users supposed to find an instance that fits what they're looking for now?

This exists as well: https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances

Doesn't this do more harm than good? I don't have time to promote and advertise. I really liked the idea that people could easily find this and join if they wanted to.

I'm not taking down the instance or anything. This serves as a "blog" if I'm the only one posting anything. I'm just a little disappointed that small or new instances aren't easily discoverable at a critical time when performance and uptime are kind of important.

People are flocking to Lemmy over the Reddit API debacle. By listing instances based on user count they're overloading and crashing the same old servers hourly (already), instead of treating instances like a federated decentralized network. I guess we'll see what happens come July...