Haha that's understandable! Well, either option should be a good choice. They've both been around since 2021 and their admins are quite active so they appear to be stable long-term instances. According to lemmy.fediverse.observer feddit.de has better uptime but in my (admittedly limited) real-world use I can't recall ever running into prolonged downtime on sopuli.xyz.

You've been given some solid suggestions, so I'll add that you can simply block ich_iel to prevent it from flooding your local feed, should you sign up at Feddit.de 👌