What are your criteria for choosing an instance other than Lemmy.world? - Sopuli

Hello everyone, Based on the recent instability of Lemmy.world, a lot of people have been wondering whether they should move to another instance. I used to look at https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list [https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list] and recommend people to pick a generalist instance with as much users as possible (using the 1m column), usually - lemm.ee [http://lemm.ee] - sh.itjust.works - sopuli.xyz - lemmy.one - reddthat.com [http://reddthat.com] - etc. Of course, there are also the regional options - feddit.de [http://feddit.de] - lemmy.ca [http://lemmy.ca] - aussie.zone - feddit.nl [http://feddit.nl] - feddit.uk [http://feddit.uk] - midwest.social - etc. And of course, the thematic instances - programming.dev - lemmy.blahaj.zone - discuss.tchncs.de [http://discuss.tchncs.de] - lemmy.dbzer0.com [http://lemmy.dbzer0.com] - etc. I used to recommend the most populated instances, as we know that All depends on users subscribed from the instance. However, now with the introduction of the Lemmy Community Seeder (https://github.com/Fmstrat/lcs [https://github.com/Fmstrat/lcs]), which > tells your instance to pull the top communities and the communities with the top posts from your favorite instances do you think this should still apply? I have seen promising instances (high uptime, already on 18.4 that was released today) - discuss.online - lemmy.ninja - unilem.org [http://unilem.org] - etc. Would you recommend users to join those as well, assuming that the admins use the LCS to populate the All feed? Most of us remember the Vlemmy.net [http://Vlemmy.net] disappearance, and it’s difficult to tell users to join small instances based on good faith, but at the same time, every instance needs to start somewhere, and they should be given a chance. What do you think?