I pushed a few fixes and improvements to instances.social this night and it is now tracking about six times more instances than it was before (2200 => 12800).
Autodiscovery of instances had been broken for some time now, and obviously with all the new users from the last weeks, came many new instances.
See the full list on https://instances.social/list/advanced an https://instances.social/list/old (the latter being the "legacy" list, a plain html table, which is quite... heavy for browsers).
@TheKinrar nice site but it seems to be missing some instances, the most obvious of which is baraag net, which should be the third largest instance by number of users (296k). I don't understand much about these things, but the site is not in safe mode (api/v1/instance works) so I think it should show up in the list, maybe I should open an issue on GH.
I looked into it and the admin say that the server is struggling because of the influx of Twitter, so they lockdown the server, I guess as soon as the server will reopen federation the bot will catch it.
@TheKinrar nevermind the site seems to be under secure mode ahah, I never notice it lmao