Personally speaking, at the time I made this account it seemed one of the better open, general instances with a home domain that wouldn’t be kinda clunky to tell others about. Folks I’d suggest this to wouldn’t care about the shit just works jokey name, but they’d probably be a little annoyed at the whole sh dot itjust dot works formatting…Which even just saying that aloud kinda sucks.

If it were shit.just.works no big deal, but it’s not, so lemmy.world is easier to write & say by comparison. That all said, even more important to me than the name was whether the admin had any experience running a federated server before for awhile, which lemmy.world’s had via their hosting of mastodon.world, so I opted for this instance. There may have been other general instances at the time with similar experience that I overlooked tbh*, and I may still hop over to another at some point, but so far this one works decently enough to me.

*-I know of some “legacy” lemmy instances that kinda fit this description, like .ca or midwest.social, but I regarded those as more for folks from those areas, and Beehaw is a little too positivity focused for my tastes (I also don’t know that I’m “nice” enough to get along well there).