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Local/regional Lemmy servers (March, 2025)

www.reddit.com /r/Lemmy/s/m0X8oAJYL2

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 @Blaze@feddit.org , @Sunshine@lemmy.ca and everyone in this post who contributed links.

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  • 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.

  • 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/

    • 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)