Dude, just click it. They have a whole UI and everything.

If only lemmyverse.net drew from more than once instance. If only.

It’s a good idea and exists at https://lemmyverse.net/instance/lemmy.world

99.36% uptime overall, other stats could be added

IDK what benefit there would be to having downdetector that was specifically for Lemmy sites, there is downdetector after all, but in general there are a couple of sites that do this. Fedidb is another one that tracks some fedi metrics also, although to me they seem a little unreliable / inconsistent from instance to instance and month to month sometimes.

Agree. The whole idea of “balancing” news coverage by combining together US-left and US-right is pretty boneheaded, but there’s actually a solid concept somewhere in there. I think combining factually strong sources, with a genuine variety of slants and takes on the news, will set you up to understand things pretty well. Reuters / NYT / Wapo is okay (for now), Al Jazeera is okay, The Guardian or some other establishment-left news is okay, and all of them are mostly unlikely to just straight-up lie to you factually, so if you combine them I feel like you’re set up with a decently complete picture of the facts. And then of course there are details and opinions that can come in a lot higher quality from some other more niche sources.

lemm.ee and lemmy.dbzer0.com both seem like very level-headed instances. You can say stuff even if the admins disagree with it, and it’s not a crisis.

Some of the big other ones seem some other way, yes.