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I find the lack of information about how many people are on the instances and reliability a bit.. Idk. That was something I used when I picked an instance. I picked one which was somewhat big but not too big and was reliable. instances.social helped me in that regard a lot.
Yes, size of the user base within an instance doesn't reaaally matter but it kinda does, esp. in the beginning when you don't know anyone. Nothing worse than empty timelines because the instance is too small