There was a post on !mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world called "Lemmy is losing the war against reddit. How do we change things?" Looks like it was removed but there were a couple good discussions there. In a discussion with (I think it was) @hendrik@palaver.p3x.de we came up with this.
I wonder if anyone's ever tried a general survey. Add an "instance" option as well, for seeing trends on specific instances. Could make it a "select one of the already other-users-made option or add your own" type of survey. Idk. Could be interesting, assuming no trolls messing with the poll