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So as for who is in charge / can clear disputes:
if it's community specific, you can report content to the mods
if it's instance specific, like some bad user or community showing up in the feed, or wanting to replace a moderator, you can ask an instance admin
How do you know an instance or admin is trustworthy?
There's no consistent answer to this one yet. There's no centralized place to find that info. Some instances are run by non profits and organizations, which is a good sign. If they are open and transparent about their financials (ex. OpenCollective) that's a good sign. If the admin is YOU (ex. Some people self host an instance just for themselves), then you can be 100% confident since it's just yourself.
For myself, I picked lemmy.ca because I'm in Canada and the instance seems pretty open. Last I heard they were filing for their official nonprofit status in Canada so I'm pretty happy with my choice.
There's is now, well, at least to an extent: https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/
Ooh thank you! It's great that it's being worked on.
I'm having issues getting it to load completely. Is there a section on who is in charge of it? Location/financials/etc.
Things like a charity rating website
The page they linked doesn't seem to exist. I think they wanted to share this one: https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/whitelisted
I checked the censored list and got surprised by how many pedophile instances exist...
What I found is only this kind of info about the instance (by clicking the instance in the list) https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/lemmy.world
So it seems like this is a site where other instances can guarantee other instances so you need to trust the ones that guarantees others.
You see in the footer who is in charge of the site and which instance: https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/lemmy.dbzer0.com
Couldn't find any financial info. But they got a community !fediseer@lemmy.dbzer0.com so you can ask there.
Pretty cool site tho if you want to find a new instances