Of course, it's everyone's own decision what they do with their free time and it is not my place to judge anyone, but you could at least give a good idea a chance, right?
What about PieFed.social? I keep thinking of it as a more experimental instance, but while it may receive updates before any of the others it was you iirc who pointed out to me that it is no longer used as the "test" instance anymore. It defederates from both of those. I forget where it is located though?