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.