I did not know that. I will conduct a thorough investigation into this important matter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WChTqYlDjtI

Who is /u/spez and why does everyone dislike him so much?

Yeah, but they make a really nice pair of socks.

Maybe they should update the join-lemmy.org page to suggest joining smaller instances. They put popular instances at the top and presumably that’s what everyone wants to join.