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
- 🇧🇩 Bangladesh: https://buddyverse.one/
- 🇯🇵 Japan: https://lm.korako.me/
- 🇲🇾 Malaysia: https://monyet.cc/
- 🇰🇷 South Korea: https://lemmy.funami.tech/
- 🇹🇷 Turkey: https://lemmy.com.tr/
Europe
- Basque Country: https://lemmy.eus/
- 🇧🇪 Belgium: https://0d.gs/
- 🇧🇬 Bulgaria: https://feddit.bg/
- Catalonia: https://lemmy.cat/
- 🇩🇰 Denmark, including Greenland (for now): https://feddit.dk/
- 🇫🇷🇧🇪🇨🇭 France, Belgium, Switzerland: https://jlai.lu/
- 🇩🇪🇦🇹🇨🇭🇱🇮 Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Lichtenstein: https://feddit.org/
- 🇫🇮 Finland: https://sopuli.xyz/ and https://suppo.fi/
- 🇮🇸 Iceland: https://feddit.is/
- 🇮🇹 Italy: https://feddit.it/
- 🇱🇹 Lithuania: https://group.lt/
- 🇳🇱 Netherlands: https://feddit.nl/
- 🇵🇱 Poland: https://fedit.pl/ and https://szmer.info/
- 🇵🇹 Portugal: https://lemmy.pt/
- 🇸🇮 Slovenia: https://gregtech.eu/
- 🇸🇪 Sweden: https://feddit.nu/
- 🇹🇷 Turkey: https://lemmy.com.tr/
- 🇬🇧 UK: https://feddit.uk/
North America
- 🇨🇦 Canada: https://lemmy.ca/ and https://sh.itjust.works/
- 🇲🇽 Mexico: https://mujico.org/
- 🇺🇸 USA: https://lemmyusa.com/ and https://discuss.online/, also for the Midwest: https://midwest.social/ and for Madison, Wisconsin: https://lemmy.fan/
Oceania
- 🇦🇺 Australia: https://aussie.zone/
- 🇳🇿 New Zealand: https://lemmy.nz/
South America
- 🇧🇷 Brazil: http://lemmy.eco.br/
- 🇨🇱 Chile: https://feddit.cl/
Addendum to the Reddit post
Defunct:
- 🇭🇺
Hungary: https://fost.hu/ - 🇮🇩
Indonesia:https://lemmy.id/ - 🇯🇵
Japan: https://feddit.jp/ - 🇷🇴
Romania: https://feddit.ro/ - 🇪🇸
Spain: http://eslemmy.es/ and https://lemuria.es/ - 🇨🇭
Switzerland: https://feddit.ch/ - 🇺🇦
Ukraine: https://feddit.kyiv.ua/
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 @Blaze@feddit.org , @Sunshine@lemmy.ca and everyone in this post who contributed links.
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.
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)