The "which instance to join" thing is the worst for me. People here are claiming at the same time that "it doesn't matter because fediverse" and "it does matter because you need to find one that you agree with their stance/philosophy/admin-decisions".

I was thinking that for this to work, each instance should had a mandatory landing page with the "about us", but this is not a solution either. How do you know that the instance has competent sysadmins? I've seen instances with exposed logs with IPs, private info etc. Its impossible to know and its literally roulette.

I have ended up having a different account in different intsance in each of my devices, which I actually enjoy tbh but claiming "just sign up" is bullshit. I may even sign up in one that the admin decides to shut down tomorrow. If I don't know the risks of randomly selecting an instance it is almost certain that something will happen that will piss me off.