Many (relatively) smaller instances have a target audience. When you are new and don't want to get "locked in", a general instance feels just right. That's how I chose mine.
I read that a lot, but my RTX4080 works quite well on linux. I'm running gnome with wayland on openSUSE tumbleweed. According to lemmy and reddit, that should be a disaster combination.
I would vote for him. The US of A are lacking honey for at least two presidents.