Not instances, but individual smaller communities that you’ve enjoyed participating in :)
Honestly, this one is probably my favourite right now. Everyone seems pretty cool, the content is engaging, and there are discussions happening in practically every thread. Everything you could want in a community.
Sail the High Seas!
This chat community has been great for random discussions. !linux@lemmy.ml has some fun discussions so far. I’m biased, but I participate in my own !campingandhiking@links.dartboard.social community
Most of the communities in Beehaw have been pretty great for me. Good vibes and overall decent discussion in pretty much all of them. For memes 196 in the blahaj instance is my favorite.
None of them. I couldn’t find any communities for my interests and the more general ones I joined are boring. Also I have already seen the kind of ugly behavior you see on Reddit, for example people who come and brag about hating homeless people and get upvotes to the front page.
You might like the Beehaw instance. That’s why I joined it, they moderate more heavily than a lot of other instances and you don’t really see as much of that. Every once in a while somebody from another instance wonders in and says something dumb but you don’t see it getting support. At least I haven’t.