I think this is fine - people I've seen who objected to this kind of project were more about their account being indexed. Projects like respective size of instances were always fine
I don't really mind, I think it's nice to give people a reason to join smaller instances anyway, ie. telling them they'll get the quality content and good vibes of Beehaw if they avoid these two monster instances. But for targeting a large audience, yeah that doesn't work!
Someone on lemmygrad.ml posted this as a comment, for users of instances that block it:
wikipedia itself is more than fine, they just spend a ton of money on other projects thats what the donation drives are mostly funding (most of which suck tbh). Another org that does just fine funding itself through donation is the Organization for Transformative Works (i.e archiveofourown.org)
(if someone could repost this that's not on an instance blocked by sopuli that would be much appreciated)
I think this is fine - people I've seen who objected to this kind of project were more about their account being indexed. Projects like respective size of instances were always fine