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
- ๐ง๐ฉ Bangladesh: https://buddyverse.one/
- ๐ฏ๐ต Japan: https://lm.korako.me/
- ๐ฒ๐พ Malaysia: https://monyet.cc/
- ๐ฐ๐ท South Korea: https://lemmy.funami.tech/
- ๐น๐ท Turkey: https://lemmy.com.tr/
Europe
- Basque Country: https://lemmy.eus/
- ๐ง๐ช Belgium: https://0d.gs/
- ๐ง๐ฌ Bulgaria: https://feddit.bg/
- Catalonia: https://lemmy.cat/
- ๐ฉ๐ฐ Denmark, including Greenland (for now): https://feddit.dk/
- ๐ซ๐ท๐ง๐ช๐จ๐ญ France, Belgium, Switzerland: https://jlai.lu/
- ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฆ๐น๐จ๐ญ๐ฑ๐ฎ Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Lichtenstein: https://feddit.org/
- ๐ซ๐ฎ Finland: https://sopuli.xyz/ and https://suppo.fi/
- ๐ฎ๐ธ Iceland: https://feddit.is/
- ๐ฎ๐น Italy: https://feddit.it/
- ๐ฑ๐น Lithuania: https://group.lt/
- ๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands: https://feddit.nl/
- ๐ต๐ฑ Poland: https://fedit.pl/ and https://szmer.info/
- ๐ต๐น Portugal: https://lemmy.pt/
- ๐ธ๐ฎ Slovenia: https://gregtech.eu/
- ๐ธ๐ช Sweden: https://feddit.nu/
- ๐น๐ท Turkey: https://lemmy.com.tr/
- ๐ฌ๐ง UK: https://feddit.uk/
North America
- ๐จ๐ฆ Canada: https://lemmy.ca/ and https://sh.itjust.works/
- ๐ฒ๐ฝ Mexico: https://mujico.org/
- ๐บ๐ธ USA: https://lemmyusa.com/ and https://discuss.online/, also for the Midwest: https://midwest.social/ and for Madison, Wisconsin: https://lemmy.fan/
Oceania
- ๐ฆ๐บ Australia: https://aussie.zone/
- ๐ณ๐ฟ New Zealand: https://lemmy.nz/
South America
- ๐ง๐ท Brazil: http://lemmy.eco.br/
- ๐จ๐ฑ Chile: https://feddit.cl/
Addendum to the Reddit post
Defunct:
- ๐ญ๐บ ~~Hungary~~: https://fost.hu/
- ๐ฎ๐ฉ ~~Indonesia:~~ https://lemmy.id/
- ๐ฏ๐ต ~~Japan~~: https://feddit.jp/
- ๐ท๐ด ~~Romania~~: https://feddit.ro/
- ๐ช๐ธ ~~Spain~~: http://eslemmy.es/ and https://lemuria.es/
- ๐จ๐ญ ~~Switzerland~~: https://feddit.ch/
- ๐บ๐ฆ ~~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.