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Yeah, in theory. In practice you need to explain to users why they are being sent to a seemingly random site, which all have different rules that don't necessarily align with what they are looking for. Plus some have open registrations and some you need to apply.
And then there's Beehaw, actively turning down registrations because they want to foster a certain community (which is their right).
This all leads to a lot of user confusion.
That's why you'd need a group to decide which instances would be included, and they'd ideally have more of a ganeral focus and with similar rules. As far as confusing the user, have the easy mode button tell you in a nice fancy slideshow or something that Lemmy is decentralized, lemmy used instances and this is the site yours is at. You're not completely getting rid of the confusion from non techies, but a quick explanation would probably go a decent ways.
Yeah perhaps have a requirement that to be in the list you need to use the lemmy code of conduct rather than your own, you must have open registrations, and probably some level of no NSFW content or that sort of thing.
I actually had to pay 0.01 monero to join my server. There was a way to join for free too but it would have taken longer