How about not hard code this in the first place. If they are hell bent on this logic then let each instance admin list the instances they want to use?

How about open arena? http://www.openarena.ws/

The terror of war.

Nobody wins in war, and I hate how angry this photo makes me feel.

Agreed, the censorship comes from the original source, not the poster on Lemmy - and the original source is the one responsible for the engagement bait.

It’s deliberate, it’s just engagement bait.

You’re linking to the wrong status page item, the outage was totally unrelated to that maintenance. If you look at cloudflare maintenance history, they do that exact type of maintenance all the time.