Is there a way to shop around for a Lemmy instance based on how many instances are blocking it and how many instances it’s blocking? For example, I noticed that the lemmygrad.ml instance is relatively popular, but it seems like a lot of other instances block it. It also blocks a bunch of other instances. So, if there are any communities on there that might be relevant to me then I would be missing out. I guess I could just create an account on a walled instance, but I would prefer not to keep creating accounts. I’d like to just find one instance that maximizes my access. Is the answer to just run my own instance?
I understand you can’t just go asking servers to send you every comment ever in its history all at once, but it would be nice if it could request like, one post’s comments.
Like my server could remember the date that it “discovered” a community, and if I open a post that was made before that, then request the comments. There might need to be rate limits for such requests. But it would be nice