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Just sending to random instance without telling the user seems misleading, at would be better to show a list of instances in my opinion (or have "show me more instances".
Searching for categories by text could also be helpful.
I recently pushed out an update that shows a preview instead of just sending them to it (with a button where someone can get a new instance for the category). I updated the post to reflect that now
Similar ish to what you said but I've been keeping it at 1 instance shown at a time to stop choice paralysis (but they can see other ones in the category now by getting a new 1 instance)