That's what I did at first, I just joined ml without understanding much about instances. To be honest, at first I thought it was a pretty chill instance, people were pretty nice in the local subs. But at some point I started to get banned without explanation from different community, where I was just giving different opinion and disagreeing with some people, nothing extreme and no insults. Then one day, boom, just no account at all. Since then I've seen quite a few disturbing things from that instance. Nothing to the level of the insufferable Hexbear, but yeah, I'm guessing there are quite a few users that just went with ml because it's one of the first instance that shows up when you search for Lemmy.

I mean when I joined .world I didn't know it was going to be a neoliberal smorgasbord. I just stick around due to laziness mostly.

Yeah, but inertia. And you want me to join an instance with a slight blue tinge? Are you mad? I'll just stay where I'm at and sort by all communities.