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As part of the ongoing missionary work.ober on The Bad Place, I posted this and thought it would be also worth posting it over here as a snapshot.of the current state of play.


One of the main complaints about signing up to a Lemmy instance/server is the decision paralysis caused by having to pick one. I've found that picking a local/regional instance or one related to a topic/subject can really help narrow the choices right down. This is a list of the local/regional servers currently available.

There was a similar list posted last year, but a lot has changed since.

Africa

Only has one instance covering the whole continent: https://baraza.africa/

Asia

Europe

North America

Oceania

South America


Addendum to the Reddit post

Defunct:

Although note that https://lemuria.es/ still seems to be running a Lemmy instance, albeit a broken one, so there is a chance it could be saved.

Thanks to @[email protected] , @[email protected] and everyone in this post who contributed links.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

What entails a local/regional server? My server is hosted in Denmark, but doesnโ€™t โ€œadvertiseโ€ itself as Danish.

Also you might wanna add Faroe Islands under Denmark.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Lemy.nl is just news outlets and traditional media having bot accounts and posting their content. There are almost no discussions or human content on that instance

Edit: see for yourself https://lemy.nl/

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's a tricky one - it does have local content but this is about helping reduce confusion and helping people sign up, and it won't help in that regard. So I'll remove it from the list.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, signing up to a bot instance isn't going to be a fun local experience. I blocked that instance a while ago because it doesn't add any value to the fediverse (imo)