By selecting something from the top of the list at the time, I ended up on vlemmy.net. Then that went down after a few days. So I created an account on lemmy.world. With that instance, everything seemed buggy, and I was constantly logged out and unable to load my account.
So I made an account ln whatever I’m on now.
To me, this seems like a big drawback for lemmy. Creating an account doesn’t guarantee any persistence unless you host your own instance. So the bar is not low for new users.