Filtering on policy is somewhat useful. How long ago it launched, whether the software is up-to-date, uptime, latency, and what datacenter the server is runnin

Filtering on policy is somewhat useful. How long ago it launched, whether the software is up-to-date, uptime, latency, and what datacenter the server is running in would be signals of whether the sysadmin is serious about maintaining the server. (Weak signals, but better than nothing.) Also, who is the admin? Are they anonymous? On my third server now. After the first two stopped working, I decided to stick with mastodon.social.