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Pick one of the top 50 or 100 ones at random, just avoid lemmy.world and lemmy.ml, they are larger than they should be.
I am currently using discuss.tchncs.de, you can try it out.
Lemmy's introduction website is good at this btw:
https://join-lemmy.org/instances?topic=all_topics&language=en&scroll=true
I'd choose one at least somewhat near yourself. It'll improve latency, and it's your window to the world, so you'll always feel that latency when browsing.
There's probably some webpage out there that will measure load times, if you don't have tools yourself.
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/ or https://mbin.fediverse.observer/ will geolocate your IP and try to show a list of geographically-nearby instances; not quite the same thing as network latency, but correlated.
What's up with world? I've seen that there are a lot of complaints going on about it, but what is the underlying problem?
It's popular.
It's reddit. As in reddit right now reddit. Just without the ads.
Also the entire point of federated networks is decentralization, if any one instance is too big, it risks snowballing into the only populated instance.
...which has been happening for a few months now. 90% of the newcomers join LW, either because someone recommends it to them or because they just don't care about decentralization or don't understand federation.
LW should actually close their registrations down for a while, but I guess they just don't want to (iirc the admins acted pretty ignorant). It is very concerning that most active communities are in LW or Lemmy.ml.
Yeah discuss.tchncs.de has been serving me well so far too. I don't really know how it compares to other instances because I haven't had a previous account elsewhere.