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[โ€“] geno 18 points 1 year ago
  1. Googled "Lemmy" to see what it even is
  2. "wtf is an instance"
  3. Checked some of the most used instances. At this point I wasn't sure if it matters much, but I just figured it's best to just pick a popular instance.
  4. found lemmy.world, and the description goes "The World's Internet Frontpage - Lemmy.world is a general-purpose Lemmy instance of various topics, for the entire world to use."
  5. "sounds good enough", created account