# Loop through some instances
database.cursor.execute(
- "SELECT domain, origin, software, nodeinfo_url FROM instances WHERE software IN ('pleroma', 'mastodon', 'friendica', 'misskey', 'lemmy', 'peertube', 'takahe', 'gotosocial', 'brighteon', 'wildebeest', 'bookwyrm', 'mitra', 'areionskey', 'mammuthus', 'neodb') AND (last_instance_fetch IS NULL OR last_instance_fetch < ?) ORDER BY rowid DESC", [time.time() - config.get("recheck_instance")]
+ "SELECT domain, origin, software, nodeinfo_url FROM instances WHERE software IN ('pleroma', 'mastodon', 'friendica', 'misskey', 'lemmy', 'peertube', 'takahe', 'gotosocial', 'brighteon', 'wildebeest', 'bookwyrm', 'mitra', 'areionskey', 'mammuthus', 'neodb') AND (last_instance_fetch IS NULL OR last_instance_fetch < ?) ORDER BY total_peers DESC, rowid DESC", [time.time() - config.get("recheck_instance")]
)
rows = database.cursor.fetchall()