I'm partial to Protector and Justice myself. Lots of great people, I always have fun and never have a problem finding teams. Head down to the Server Forums and check them out.
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Servers
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/36641/My-Little-Exalt
I think ParagonWiki has an interesting description of the various servers' quirks too, though I haven't been playing long enough myself to assess how accurate it is.
Edit: the above post beat me to it! 
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Hello! I'm new to the game and I am curious about what are the qualities of each server? If someone could redirect to a post dealing with this or whatever, thatd be great!
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- Freedom has the highest population, but thanks to the highest total number of players you also end up with the highest number of jerks to deal with. There are lots of good players there, but with so many players you're going to run into the really memorable idiots as well. On the plus side it's incredibly easy finding a team... on the minus side you're going to find a fair percentage of startlingly bad teams.
- Virtue is the unofficial Role Playing server so you may find some of the people you meet a bit strange if they're playing "in character". It's also the second most populated.
- Infinity is frequently the third most populated server and it has something of a reputation for PvP; since I don't have any high level characters there and I avoid PvP like the plague I can't say if it's deserved or not.
- Guardian is my home server, it's relatively low population but there's enough people playing and it's very rare to run into idiots and jerks; most players are skilled and happy to assist new players.
- Pinnacle is my second home, all in all it's fairly similar to Guardian with a lower population than the big servers and lots of good friendly people playing. Frequently referred to as the "Drunk Server" you may hear some in-jokes about the whole situation of inebriation.
- Protector is more often than not the lowest population server of the bunch; while I do have several characters there it's not one I play regularly. From what I hear it has a good reputation for friendly helpful players. Then again, every server but Freedom has much the same reputation.
Whichever server you decide on I strongly advise you to avoid the Architect building and play thru the regular content at least until you're in the upper teens. That'll give you a foundation for playing the game; lots of new players have gotten into the Architect missions at level one and come out as level 50 without ever learning how to play.
Oh, and welcome to the game and enjoy your stay!
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Freedom is the most populated of the servers, and to my knowledge is the 'unofficial zone PvP' server. However, due to it's large population it attracts the highest quantity o new players and jerks, leading it to occasionally be known as Free-dumb. However, the the server isn't dumb, it's just the most populated.
Virtue is the second most populated server, as well as the 'unofficial roleplaying server'. The players here are generally helpful and seems to have suffered less from the AE farming generation than most of the other servers. Due to the roleplayers, there is much more powerset diversity, leading to players using powersets that arent always the best performing, leading to a higher percentage good players rather than good builds. However, this also means that due to said RP, players will occasionally gimp their own builds for character reasons. However, that tendancy is few and far between.
Justice is one of the friendliest srvers I've ever been a part of. I started here and found that most of the players are extremely helpful and friendly to new players. There really isnt much mroe to say about it than that. Except that I believe their method of Hami-Raiding is the safest and most efficient of them all, but this is due to the class dversity. Virtues Hami's have scrapper teams due to the incredibly large number of Scrappers, but, you make due.
Pinnacle is another server that lives past it's expectations. Yes it was the red-headed stepchild, but now the server seems to have recovered.
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Pinnacle is my second home, all in all it's fairly similar to Guardian with a lower population than the big servers and lots of good friendly people playing. Frequently referred to as the "Drunk Server" you may hear some in-jokes about the whole situation of inebriation.
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Yay for Pinnacle!
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Hello! I'm new to the game and I am curious about what are the qualities of each server? If someone could redirect to a post dealing with this or whatever, thatd be great!
Thanks!