Comment by cldellow

Yeah, it's pretty frustrating.

I initially tried the https://joinmastodon.org/servers thing in November, but the things proposed seemed like very niche communities.

I just tried the https://instances.social/ link -- the top 2 hits for me were very small instances (fewer than 5 people), which I wouldn't have much faith in joining.

Actually, I guess I should have mentioned how I _actually_ chose a server. I used https://fedifinder.glitch.me/ and joined the first fast-enough server that most of my existing contacts were on.