You said it yourself, what most people want (and seem to think this is) is a forum, not a fediverse. Imo a lot of the users who feel a strong need to control everything for everyone will end up leaving, since this is closer to what reddit used to be (you went to r/all and it showed ALL, not the watered down version that they forced for advertising reasons) and we all know it’s not for everyone.

It’s working now, thanks. Still can’t see the list in communities without an account so maybe creating a landing community just to check a list and a warning about the content could help

I think you need to create at least one community inside your instace for others to be able to federate to it (tried it but with just the instance doesn’t seem to work).