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This is not true. Of course join-lemmy.org can hide instances from the list and is AFAIK doing so already.
Yup, there's no way they can't just hide specific instances from the list. And they really should. The only explicitly NSFW instance being an explicitly pedo instance is a really bad look. Exactly the wrong kind of early reddit vibes.
Yeah they can, so my guess would be they just don't check everything that shows up (at least if it's not at the top) and hopefully once this comes to their attention it'll be promptly removed
AFAIK you just add your instance to the list via git pull request, and then it's sorted based on activity. You cna absolutely screen instances, by reviewing pull requests.
But that takes labour, and people are also pushing for the devs to work on the actual server and client softwares, and their instance is overloaded, and...
This is what happens to small projects, whether they be software or anything else, when they suddenly get a lot of attention. Pace accelerates, but the amount of available labour hours doesn't increase at nearly the same rate.