Updated 2023-08-29
A CSV version of this list is available at https://github.com/chrisacheson/instance_list_management
Topic/audience focused:
- 4wd.social - "a home in the fediverse for offroad, overlanding, outdoors and related content"
- aiparadise.moe - "a Lemmy instance focused on all things AI, everyone is welcome here :)"
- ani.social - "A Social Hub for Anime Fans"
- awful.systems - Tech snark?
- bookwormstory.social - "Ascendance of a Bookworm Community"
- boomer.casino - "the only website in the fediverse made for the digital elderly" (memes)
- cdda.social - "The official Lemmy for Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead"
- citizensgaming.com - "a Star Citizen specific Lemmy instance"
- code4lib.net - "GLAM themed online community" (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums)
- communick.news - "Given that Communick is a privacy-focused service provider who supports open source and the indieweb, you can expect some of this content to gravitate towards that"
- community.nicfab.it - "This is a community space for projects and users interested in privacy, data protection, cybersecurity, and innovative solutions."
- crystals.rest - "A general instance for livestreaming, anime, and retro art!"
- demotheque.com - "For the demoscene, culture and people associated with it."
- digipres.cafe - "A community notice board and discussion space for all things digital preservation, including digital-GLAM, and digital information records management."
- discuss.divergentparenting.space - "A space for caregivers of neurodivergent people to talk amongst themselves and provide support. Allies are welcome."
- discuss.ntfy.sh - "ntfy (pronounced notify) is a simple HTTP-based pub-sub notification service. You can use it to send push notifications to your phone via HTTP PUT/POST."
- disflux.org - "disflux is a lemmy instance focused on D.I.Y. and self sufficiency type communities."
- dit.reformed.social - "a space for Reformed Christians to have discussions, make friends, and support one another"
- dormi.zone - "A Lemmy instance for fans of the third-person action games Warframe and Soulframe, developed by Digital Extremes"
- fanaticus.social - "A community of sports fans to talk about sports."
- fanexus.com - "A lemmy instance devoted to fans of all kinds."
- fedi196.gay - LGBTQ-focused kbin instance
- femboys.bar - "lemmy instance for the bois'"
- frmsn.space - "The home for Freemasonry on Lemmy & the Fediverse"
- futurology.today - "A community devoted to the field of Future(s) Studies and evidence-based speculation about the development of humanity, technology, and civilization."
- gekinzuku.com - "The best gaming site ever"
- hobbit.world - "This is intended to be a small community of folks who love the works of Tolkien."
- hotaudiofiction.social - "A community for audio fiction fans and creators - For lovers and creators of audio fiction in any form—fiction podcasts, audio dramas, radio theater, audiobooks, and more!"
- infosec.pub - Info- and cybersecurity, related to infosec.exchange Mastodon server
- iusearchlinux.fyi - btw
- l.cackl.io - "Link aggregation for furries: hyenas and hyena friends, specifically! Furry content not required."
- lebowski.social - "The Big Lebowski Instance"
- lem.clinicians-exchange.org - "Mental Health Professional Discussion and Peer Support"
- lemdro.id - Android
- lemmy.4d2.org - "A general purpose instance with an affection for retrocomputing and a left-libertarian cypherpunk sensibility."
- lemmy.beyondcombustion.net - "A Lemmy community for cannabis, vaporizers, and vaporizer accessories."
- lemmy.blahaj.zone - "a general purpose lemmy instance for queer and gender diverse folk, and their allies."
- lemmy.bringdaruck.us - "A home for all things hiphop"
- lemmy.dbzer0.com - "Communities about Generative AI, Copylefts, Neurodivergence, Filesharing, and Godot Engine software"
- lemmy.design - "A Lemmy community for tech and design"
- lemmy.film - "A Lemmy for filmmakers, movie buffs, artists, creators and everyone!"
- lemmy.graphics - "A Lemmy instance for computer graphics hobbyists and professionals."
- lemmy.intai.tech - "Integrated AI - Home and forum for AI Enthusiasts" Front end broken? Doesn't list any posts, but direct links to them still work
- lemmy.kde.social - "Friendly lemmy instance for the KDE community"
- lemmy.kodemystic.dev - "Extradimensional pit for eschatonic oracles, anarcho-technomancers, wasted tinfoil madhatters, seekers of eldritch abysses and amnesiac xenomorphs."
- lemmy.linuxuserspace.show - "This instance is brought to you by the guys that do the Linux User Space video and audio podcast."
- lemmy.mods4ever.com - "a collection of communities for our game mods including Deus Ex Randomizer and RollerCoaster Tycoon Randomizer, and also a community for The 7th Guest series"
- lemmy.piracy.guide - "Piracy Guide Lemmy"
- lemmy.radio - "A lemmy instance for amateur radio enthusiasts to use."
- lemmy.redkrieg.com - "Just a place for makers to post their things!"
- lemmy.servarr.com - "Lemmy for Servarr and all arr related things"
- lemmy.spacestation14.com - "A Lemmy instance for Space Station 14"
- lemmy.srv.eco - "Self-sufficiency, mutual aid, collapse, and other subjects related to the environment and our place and role(s) within it."
- lemmy.studio - "An instance for musicians and music lovers"
- lemmy.villa-straylight.social - "A general purpose Lemmy instance with a cool cyberpunk aesthetic"
- lemmy.vrchat-dev.tech - "a community-driven lemmy instance for VRChat, a virtual universe home to thousands of unique worlds!"
- lemmy.whynotdrs.org - "GameStop, US stock markets, direct registration, holding Wall Street accountable, and more"
- lemmy.wraithsquadrongaming.com - "Star Wars is a buffet - there's something for everyone!"
- lemmy.zip - "A Lemmy community for everyone, with a focus towards tech, PCs, and gaming."
- lemmy2.addictmud.org - "focus on gaming in general, mudding more specifically, and my mud exactly (addictMUD)."
- lemmyadmin.site - "A Federation of small instance administrators to share knowledge and back each other up during off hours incidents."
- lemmydeals.com - "A Federated deal finder"
- lemmyf.uk - "your nsfw homepage"
- lemmyfly.org - "A Lemmy instance with aviation related communities"
- lemmyloves.art - A lemmy instance for artists & art lovers
- lemmymemes.com - "Join our online board, connect with meme lovers, and unleash your laughter. Share, discuss, and enjoy the funniest memes around. It's meme time!"
- lemmynsfw.com - "NSFW (18+) only instance for Lemmy"
- lemmyrs.org - "Federated Rust Lang Instance"
- lib.lgbt - "positive and welcoming lemmy community with a particular focus on LGBT people and their allies."
- libreauto.app - "Libre Automation: Build Smart Homes, Liberating with Open-Source"
- linux.community - "The Linux.Chat community is a multi-platform community for general Linux® support."
- literature.cafe - "A Cozy Place for Bibliophiles and Writers (and anyone else, really)"
- mander.xyz - "An instance dedicated to nature and science"
- mobilemmohub.com - "Community of mobile MMO games enthusiasts"
- monero.town - "A town for the Monero community to live in."
- moto.teamswollen.org - "For all motorcycle discussions including racing."
- mtgzone.com - "Magic: the Gathering communities for all formats, interests, skill levels, and news!"
- neatia.xyz - "dedicated to writing and sharing prompts for prompt engineering in LLMs."
- nerdbin.social - "Your home for all your favorite nerdy pop culture fandoms!"
- oceanbreeze.earth - "A nature themed community for adventurists."
- odin.lanofthedead.xyz - "for LANoftheDead network members and other likeminded human beings."
- pathfinder.social - "A place for people to discuss Pathfinder and Starfinder tabletop RPGs"
- pathofexile-discuss.com - "POE non-reddit discussion!"
- pawb.social - "Communities for furries by furries"
- poptalk.scrubbles.tech - "Communities centered around today's pop music. Come join to Popheads, Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey, or create your own community!"
- pornlemmy.com - "Clean fun safe porn" ("heavy bias towards vanilla content")
- possumpat.io - "An instance hosting communities for some niche interests and hobbies."
- preserve.games - "A place to discuss video game preservation and history"
- pricefield.org - "The Pricefield corner of Lemmy! For all fans of Max and Chloe, Arcadia Bay, or just Life is Strange in general."
- programming.dev - "A collection of programming communities"
- psychedelia.ink - "for all things psychedelia or psychedelia-adjacent."
- rblind.com - "This is an instance for blind and low vision folks, and friends of the blindness community"
- retrolemmy.com - "A place to join and create all kinds of retro themed communities." Currently focused on retro tech
- rimworld.gallery - "Rimworld.gallery is a non profit kbin server dedicated to Rimworld, especially high resolution renders made with the progress renderer mod."
- seemel.ink - "See Me Link Aggregator" - Tech, mostly keyboards
- sffa.community - "The Science-Fiction Fantasy Alliance"
- shinobu.cloud - "For Shinobu and Anime lovers"
- slrpnk.net - "Where solarpunks organize for a better world!"
- startrek.website - "The warp core of the internet"
- sub.wetshaving.social - "An rWetShaving Community"
- support.futbol - "Association Football focused instance."
- tabletop.place - "A home for board games, tabletop games, wargames, and role-playing games!"
- tagpro.lol - "lemmy instance for tagpro players"
- terefere.eu - "Arts & history instance. Everyone is welcome!"
- thegarden.land - "a home for gardeners and plant-lovers"
- thevapor.space - "Vaping and engineering discussion space"
- toons.zone - "A space for all things animation of all mediums, whether you’re just a fan, or an artist yourself."
- ttrpg.network - "a site dedicated to TTRPG discussion, memes, news, etc."
- wallstreets.bet - "a hedge against an eventual elimination and removal of the original /r/wallstreetbets"
- waveform.social - "A home for musically minded people"
- wayfarershaven.eu - "Creating a space for inspiration, creativity, handwork, reading, learning, travel, etc."
- wizanons.dev - "for wizards, witches, warlocks, and all magic users. LGBTQIA+ friendly. All welcome! Mysticism and psychedelics welcome too."
- yiffit.net - "A queer and yiffy lemmy instance for furry art discovery"
- zoo.splitlinux.org - "Everything Split Linux"
Location/language focused:
(For some of these it's a little unclear to me whether they should be associated with a country or a language. Please let me know if anything needs to be corrected.)
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Australia
- aussie.zone
- lemmy.bleh.au
- Perth - lemmy.perthchat.org
- Tasmania - lemmy.nine-hells.net
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Austria
- Graz - lemmy.graz.social
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Basque - lemmy.eus - "Free and federated Basque web forums. Euskalmemes, free software, fidiverse, etymologies..."
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Belgium - lemmie.be
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Brazil - lemmy.eco.br
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Canada - lemmy.ca
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Catalan - lemmy.cat
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Chile - feddit.cl
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Chinese
- bbs.9tail.net - "Anonymous two-dimensional chat forum for anime, comic, game, vtuber"
- lemmy.ch3n2k.com
- lemmy.sdfcn.org
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Czechia - czech-lemmy.eu
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Denmark - feddit.dk
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Finland
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France
- jlai.lu
- lemmy.kaouenn-noz.fr - Biohacking focus
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Galician - foros.fediverso.gal
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Germany
- feddit.de
- lemmy.rollenspiel.monster - RPG-focused
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Hungary - fost.hu - "A magyar Lemmy szerver 🇭🇺"
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Indonesia - lemmy.my.id
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Israel/Palestine - lemmy.org.il - "General Palestine/Israel instance. Hebrew/Arabic/Engl*sh"
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Italy - feddit.it
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Japan
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Japanese/English - lemmy.sdfjp.org
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Lithuania - group.lt
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Malaysia - monyet.cc
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Mexico - mujico.org - "r/Mujico: Fuck u/spez, we move to mujico.org" (memes)
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Netherlands
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New Zealand
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Norway - nrsk.no
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Poland
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Portugal - feddit.pt
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Portuguese
- bolha.forum - "Visit bolha.io to know more about our collective."
- lemmy.pt - "A public instance of Lemmy dedicated to the entire Portuguese-speaking community."
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Romania - feddit.ro
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Russia
- 0xdd.org.ru - "DevDay Community Links Aggregator", tech focus
- rekabu.ru - "an open Lemmy server for various communities, designed mainly for the RU segment of the Internet."
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Scotland
- Glasgow - lemmy.glasgow.social
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Slovenia - lemiverse.xyz
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South Africa - lmmy.co.za - "A place for lemmy'sersingtons in South Africa"
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South Korea - lemmy.funami.tech
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Spain - eslemmy.es
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Spanish
- foro.markoop.org - "Markoop is a strategic free culture project to establish a cooperative framework in Social and Solidarity Economy environments."
- lemuria.es - "A meeting point to discover and debate for Spanish-speaking users"
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Sweden
- feddit.nu
- lemmy.helvetet.eu - Metal music focus
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Switzerland - feddit.ch
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UK - feddit.uk
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USA
- AZ, Tucson - tucson.social
- CA, Sacramento - lemmy.death916.xyz
- CO - centennialstate.social
- CO, Boulder County - boulder.ly - "Keep Boulder weird, in the Fediverse!"
- DC/MD/VA - dmv.social - "a community for those around washington dc, maryland, and virginia"
- GA, Atlanta - yall.theatl.social
- Midwest - midwest.social - "A lemmy server for, but not limited to, leftists in the Midwest USA"
- NY, New York City - talk.kururin.tech - Hunter College
- VA - lemmy.mayes.io - "local communities for virginia and blue ridge."
- WV - dubvee.org