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.
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
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)