Lemmy.world has been performing quite well. As long as an user from Lemmy.ml subscribes to your Lemmy.world community, discoverability shouldn't be a problem either. Welcome!
Pop!_OS
PopOS
Yeah, the lemmy.world instance is running on a dedicated server with an AMD EPYC 7502P 32 Core CPU and 128GB RAM so it's extremely smooth.
So glad you're here, and good call on avoiding the flagship instance:)
Out of curiosity, are you just saying 'official', or is this actually connected with anyone from Pop!_OS? If it's the ladder, are there plans to host an actual instance for official use? I think one of things that sucked with reddit was the proliferation of corporate controlled subs that were essentially marketing that shut out any real discussion. With federation it seems to makes more sense to me to have official posts on an invite only instance run by system76.
I am https://github.com/mmstick and I've linked to the Lemmy instance in the description of r/pop_os.
I'm not sure why, but I couldn't see these comments from my lemmy.world account.