I know this point was already made but it really is just email but with your email provider also offering public mailing lists. It kept feeling super complicate

I know this point was already made but it really is just email but with your email provider also offering public mailing lists. It kept feeling super complicated until I realized that's all it is. Don't overthink which instance to choose. Just sign up for Lemmy.world or any of the other "general purpose" instance. It's not terribly important. The one caveat to that is that you may want to choose beehaw instead if you strongly value a more heavily moderated experience. As I understand it, Beehaw intends to refederate once there are better moderation tools available on Lemmy but for now they are separated.