Lucia [she/her]

They closed sign ups during the early days of the migration up until recently. I just missed the moment they’re open again since I’m not interested in large instances.

That’s reasonable! Although AFAIK lemmynsfw is one of the most defederated instances ever, so there’s a lot of options.

Nah, .ml is as old as lemmy itself, while .ee is a really young instance.

why do people choose it over other instances?

Non-techy people want a big instance, but .world goes offline too often and .ml doesn’t allow new sign ups.