ut what’s left regardless is: Even that link that is supposed to make instance selection easier isn’t exactly easy to understand for a newcomer.

Newcomers are supposed to just read

" Lemmy has 47k monthly active users

https://discuss.online/ if you want a server located in the USA (content is still accessible from any server, the most difference latency)
https://sopuli.xyz/ if you want a server located in the EU
https://vger.app/settings/install if you want an app

Feel free if you have any questions "

The rest was up for debate, feel free to copy paste your comment in that thread so that other people can see it as well