Currently I'm more aware of general interest instances for both Lemmy & Kbin, and a few more focused ones (e.g. Mander.xyz/slrpnk.net/startrek.website), so I'm curious what others there might be.

At the same time, would you be interested in more narrowly focused instances that aren't tech-oriented, and if so, concerning what subjects?

Also as to why you might want those, it's mainly for a more focused local feed related to communities surrounding the primary subject you joined for, meanwhile your subscribed/all feeds would remain more general. An example might be you join a country/region-oriented instance where the local communities may literally be based around local communities in your area as well as regional/national & sub-regional/national news or the like.

No idea if lemmy.ca is organized like that in any way btw, but I wouldn't be surprised if there are some Canadian-themed local communities there. Anyway, I'm getting sidetracked, but see first couple sentences for the main question & topic.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

There are instances associated specific countries

Australia aussie.zone
Canada lemmy.ca
Chile feddit.cl
Denmark feddit.dk
France jlai.lu
Finland sopuli.xyz
Finland suppo.fi
Germany discuss.tchncs.de
Germany feddit.de
Germany + RPG lemmy.rollenspiel.monster
Indonesia lemmy.my.id
Italy feddit.it
Malaysia monyet.cc
Netherlands feddit.nl
New Zealand lemmy.nz
New Zealand no.lastname.nz
Portugal feddit.pt
Romania feddit.ro
Spain/spanish eslemmy.es
Sweden feddit.nu
Switzerland feddit.ch
UK feddit.uk
and so much more…

edit: I've made lots of little corrections here and there, added links and all that. Must be like version 20 by now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Preeeeety sure the correct one for Germany is feddit.de

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

We have two!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Good catch! Fixed the typo.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Denmark one is feddit.dk 😌

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks. Fixed it. I keep wondering why do I always type too fast...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Don't worry. As Danes we are always mistaken for Germans abroad, so we are used to it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'd like to add no.lastname.nz to the list, a New Zealand based instance with an outdoors/environmental slant. I'm working with Dave from lemmy.nz to not duplicate communities

[–] Heastes 3 points 1 year ago

Germany feddit.dk

.dk is Denmark. feddit.de is the German one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Spain/spanish https://eslemmy.es/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Feddit.nu for Sweden as well.

[–] Magiwarriorx 14 points 1 year ago

https://ttrpg.network/ for all things TTRPG!

[–] wilberfan 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy.film

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yea ... this one for me too ... was very pleasantly surprised to see that instance. A link for those curious: https://lemmy.film/?dataType=Post&listingType=Local&page=1&sort=Active

[–] artsii 7 points 1 year ago

Theres wayfarershaven.eu for travel-related and niche hobbyist topics like knitting, sewing, and fountain pens

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Self plug: Mental health instance -- members must be verified to be employed in mental health professions. lem.clinicians-exchange.org .

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

shameless self-plug but i host an instance for the life is strange fandom (pricefield.org)

i've also seen a game preservation instance at preserve.games

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I joined the MTGzone.com instance because I used to use Reddit for MTG news 80% of the time anyway, andnnow I have a nice local feed for magic the gathering stuff and a federated feed for everything else. It's great!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I've been thinking of starting a theatre-focused kbin instance, but realistically not until the platform has matured, as my sysadmin days are well, well, well behind me. In the meantime I've started a Musicals magazine on kbin.social.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Inspired by this thread, I made a community for cataloging specialized instances:

[–] Mpeach45 2 points 1 year ago

http://dormi.zone is focused mainly on the games Warframe and Soulframe.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

https://poptalk.scrubbles.tech/ to discuss pop music. Nice community

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