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In all honesty, any sort of picking or choosing will turn off casual users. Ideally there'd be a button that automatically redirects you to the sign-up page of a random smaller trusted instance.
@HKayn @HR_Pufnstuf A wizard that gives you a random choice based on your interests could be an interesting tool from a UX perspective. Questions to refine down the options could be based on language, specialized vs generalist, categories within specialized, number of users (S, M, L) age of the instance