I like what you are doing with this post and appreciate it.

Similar to the only white packaging and black text marketing from the xkcd https://xkcd.com/993/

Some of them are at least honest and have it as a user agent.

I don’t see the issue with recommending a generic instance, if your intend is to convert the generic user. It certainly is a better experience than saying ‘ok, so choose what you like from this list of instances’ and they don’t even know the implications or what that means.

The overcomplication of Lemmy is an issue, and this behavior tries to avoid that.

I have been using Uranus moons for all my devices.