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I honestly don't recall, even though it was just a week or two ago. It was one of the Reddit alternatives that people were talking about, and I liked the federated aspect - it reminds me of the Usenet of old, which was my first online social experience. I tried signing up to one of the handful of non-lemmy.ml servers that were being recommended at the time to balance the load, but only lemmy.ml was actually online when I made the attempt so I signed up there.
Then I started noticing the odd popularity of Russia and China in the news communities, and around that time I heard about kbin. Again, even though I'd have loved to load-balance, kbin.social was the only one available at the time so I signed up there.
As soon as account transfer gets implemented I'll start looking to move to another instance and finally do my part to distribute things a bit more.