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Where do I find a list of local instances? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 2 years ago by JesusTheCarpenter to c/[email protected]

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I wasn't sure where to ask so I chose here. The other day I saw a post encouraging people to spread the load on lemmy.world and jump onto other instances.

I've decided to take one for the tea and do it even though my account is like 2 weeks old 🫡

However, how do I find physically local instances? In the post mentioned above someone gave a link that shows some sort of a map(?) where such information could be found. Could someone hook me up with it please?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

https://join-lemmy.org/instances

or a geographic map:

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/map

You need to filter by lemmy at the top instead of all.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That geographic map view does not work well. It shows where the servers are hosted, but that doesn't need to be at all close to the actual topic of the instance. For example, midwest.social is hosted in a Frankfurt, Germany data center and is about the USA midwest region.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I also noted there doesn't seem to be a lemmy.ca hosted anywhere in Canada.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

https://the-federation.info/platform/73

Correction: this page lists instances including the country they're in. You can sort on the Country column.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

That map is really cool. Thanks for sharing that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

https://lemmyverse.net

You can search by keywords and language. I try different variations of my region's names, smaller and larger local region names, abbreviations, and was able to find them quite easily.

[–] JesusTheCarpenter 1 points 2 years ago

Oh, this is lovely. Thank you.