As someone with an account on that instance, I picked it because it was easy to sign up coming from reddit, and it has good federation.
An interesting video on the topic, that directly argues against a lot of what the article says
https://youtu.be/vOgIOTenmrs?si=aLCd7f48edfDIUvc
As someone with an account on that instance, I picked it because it was easy to sign up coming from reddit, and it has good federation.