The instance you make your account on doesn’t matter, as they’re federated you can see and interact with posts from anywhere else.

You can check out the Lemmy community browser to see a list of the most visited communities, then search for them in https://lemmy.world/search to subscribe/post/comment. (note: beehaw.org communities arent accessible from lemmy.world, so ignore those)

Update for anyone wondering: Around 58% of the initial protest userbase has gone dark permanently (at the time of writing).

Many have gone public only to run polls on how to proceed, so that number is expected to increase.

I’ve heard several advertisers are reconsidering spending with Reddit, they didn’t realize the community had this much power over the site (which introduces more risk for them.) Hopefully that has some effect.

I just messaged them, but they haven’t had any activity on their account since creation (including in their own subs), so I don’t have a lot of hope.

Worst case scenario, if I don’t get a response in a week I will try contacting Ruud. Having to contact the instance admin directly for this sort of thing seems unsustainable though.