Yo admins! In preparation for a better joinmastodon.org sign-up wizard, https://instances.social directory now lets you set a category for your instance, in the admin area.

The categories are: art, music, books, activism, sports, games, tech, academia. It's ok to not have a category, too, like for example octodon.social is just a general purpose instance. But if yours is themed, you better categorize it.

If you think a crucial category is missing, tag @TheKinrar

@Gargron Oh that's so great, I really missed that feature when I was looking for an instance !
@TheKinrar would it be possible to add a "LGBT" category ? That's clearly one I would be looking for myself.

@myrrhashad @TheKinrar I think this needs to be approached carefully. Categorizing instances by identities may make a bad impression. In terms of LGBT activism, we've got "activism".

@Gargron @TheKinrar Yes, I get what you're saying. Clearly I would be looking more for "LGBT-friendly" than "LGBT activism", but then it's not really a category by itself.