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Unsure where to register to join Fediverse? Choose a website from this curated list. Currently it includes Mastodon, Pleroma and Friendica servers. Websites are not restricted to their theme. They help people with common interests find their community.

💡 Sciences

• lugnasad.eu - for French speaking science lovers (Friendica)
• realscience.social - for naturalists and scientists that appreciate evidence based science (Mastodon)
• scicomm.xyz - for scientists and science enthusiasts (Mastodon)
• scholar.social - for researchers, undergrads, journal editors, librarians, administrators (Mastodon)
• fediscience.org - for publishing scientists, from natural sciences to the humanities (Mastodon)

🎨 Humanities

• mastodon.cc - for art (Mastodon)
• writing.exchange - community for poets, writers, bloggers (Mastodon)
• imaginair.es - for writers, painters, cartoonists and people with imagination (Mastodon)
• literatur.social - for German speaking authors and literary people
• photographer.pro - for working professional photographers (Mastodon)
• photog.social - place for your photos (Mastodon)
• oulipo.social - a lipogrammatic server (Mastodon)
• mograph.social - for motion design community, VFX / 3D artists, animators, illustrators (Mastodon)
• socel.net - for animation professionals and freelancers (Mastodon)
• history.lol - for history, both oddball side of things and serious history (Mastodon)
• iztasocial.site - discussions about psychology for professors of SUAyED Psicología university of Mexico (Mastodon)
• veenus.art - for artists and art lovers (Pleroma)
• vis.social - for anyone into data, visualization, creative coding, related arts and research (Mastodon)

🎓 Education

• tusk.schoollibraries.net - helping educators improve the School Libraries Resource Network (Mastodon)
• openbiblio.social - German libraries and information facilities (Mastodon)
• ausglam.space - Australian galleries, libraries, archives, museums and records people (Mastodon)

🙏 Religion

• rcsocial.net - for Catholics and those interested in Catholicism (Mastodon)
• theres.life - for Christians (Mastodon)

🎵 Music

• metalhead.club - for metal friends (Mastodon)
• linernotes.club - for discussing music recordings (Mastodon)
• koreadon.com - for K-POP music fans (Mastodon)
• bostonmusic.online - digital space serving the Boston music scene (Mastodon)
• happyband.es - for musicians looking for other musicians (Mastodon)
• indiefedi.party - for independent musicians and near-musical content makers (Pleroma)

🔭 Interests and hobbies

• scramble.city - transformers, super robots, mecha and related subjects (Mastodon)
• mhz.social - for radio amateurs, DXers and anyone interested to geek out about radio (Mastodon)
• mastodon.radio - for Amateur (Ham) Radio community (Mastodon)
• mastd.racing - dedicated to motosports (Mastodon)
• kith.kitchen - food and cooking (Mastodon)
• pano.community - for fans of 360° photos, videos and virtual reality stuff (Mastodon)
• btc.gdn - bitcoin Fediverse instance (Cloudflared) (Pleroma)
• rollenspiel.social - (German) roleplay, Pen & Paper, tabletop, TCG, for all gamers (Mastodon)
• masto.beer - for those who love beer (Mastodon)
• 80percent.social - discussions about shooting sports, Olympics to hobby level (Pleroma)

🎏 Language specific

• esperanto.masto.host - for those interested in Esperanto (Mastodon)
• tooot.im - main instance language is Hebrew (Mastodon)
• toot.si - Slovenian (multilingual) instance (Mastodon)
• mastodontti.fi - Finnish, public toots should be in Finnish (Mastodon)
• fikaverse.club - Swedish and other Scandinavian languages (Mastodon)
• mastodon.sk - for Slovak users (Mastodon)
• mastodon.eus - for Euskera/Basque speakers (Mastodon)
• gomastodon.cz - for Czech users (Cloudflared) (Mastodon)
• lhub.social - for Polish speakers (Mastodon)
• bong.social - for Bengali worldwide (Mastodon)
• xarxa.cloud - for Catalan and Spanish speakers (Mastodon)
• mastodon.fedi.bzh - for Breton and Gallo speakers (Mastodon)
• tooxy.cz - for Czech speakers (Mastodon)

⛺ Regional

• muenchen.social - Munich, Germany (Mastodon)
• oberpfalz.social - Oberpfalz, Germany (Mastodon)
• augsburg.social - Augsburg, Germany (Mastodon)
• wue.social - Würzburg (and the neighbourhood), Germany (Mastodon)
• ruhr.social - Ruhr area, Germany (Mastodon)
• bonn.social - Bonn, Germany (Mastodon)
• social.cologne - Cologne, Germany (Mastodon)
• toot.koeln - Cologne, Germany (generalistic) (Mastodon)
• krefeld.life - Krefeld, Germany (Mastodon)
• nrw.social - North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (Mastodon)
• social.saarland - Saarland, Germany (Mastodon)
• dresden.network - Dresden, Germany (Mastodon)
• toot.chemnitz.social - Chemnitz, Germany (Mastodon)
• lediver.se - Leipzig, Germany (Mastodon)
• machteburch.social - Magdeburg, Germany (Mastodon)
• darmstadt.social - Darmstadt, Germany (Mastodon)
• fulda.social - Fulda, Germany (Mastodon)
• norden.social - Northern Germany (Mastodon)
• brandenburg.social - Brandenburg, Germany (Mastodon)
• berlin.social - Berlin, Germany (Mastodon)
• osna.social - Osnabrück, Germany (Mastodon)
• freiburg.social - Freiburg, Germany (Mastodon)
• social.bau-ha.us - Weimar, Germany (Mastodon)
• fem.social - Ilmenau, Germany (Mastodon)
• friendica.a-zwenkau.de - Zwenkau, Germany (Friendica)
• voi.social - Austria (Mastodon)
• graz.social - Graz, Austria (Mastodon)
• oslo.town - Oslo, Norway (Mastodon)
• snabelen.no - Norway (Mastodon)
• mastodon.se - Sweden (Mastodon)
• norrebro.space - Denmark (Mastodon)
• tukkers.online - Twente region, Netherlands (Mastodon)
• mastodon.nl - Netherlands (Mastodon)
• mastodon.lu - Luxembourg (Mastodon)
• mastodon.opencloud.lu - Luxembourg (private and public organisations) (Mastodon)
• mastodon.uy - Uruguay (Mastodon)
• chilemasto.casa - Chile (Mastodon)
• masto.donte.com.br - Brazilia (Mastodon)
• mastodon.scot - Scotland, or who identify as Scottish (Mastodon)
• glasgow.social - Glasgow, Scotland (Mastodon)
• toot.wales - Wales and the Welsh (Mastodon)
• mastodon.ie - Ireland (Mastodon)
• mastodon.london - London, UK (Mastodon)
• mastodon.me.uk - UK tech community (Mastodon)
• rva.party - Richmond, USA (Mastodon)
• triangletoot.party - Triangle region of North Carolina, USA (Mastodon)
• socialclub.nyc - New York, USA (Mastodon)
• social.tulsa.ok.us - Tulsa, Northeast Oklahoma, USA (Mastodon)
• lancasterpa.social - for anyone from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA (Mastodon)
• sfba.social - San Francisco Bay Area, USA (Mastodon)
• sf.social - San Francisco Bay Area, USA (Mastodon)
• pdx.social - Portland, USA (Mastodon)
• austin.community - Austin and central Texas, USA (Mastodon)
• kcmo.social - Kansas City, USA (Mastodon)
• the.vermonters.club - Vermont, USA (Mastodon)
• mastodon.mg - Madagascar (Mastodon)
• balkan.fedive.rs - the Balkans (generalistic) (Mastodon)
• mastodon.fedi.quebec - Quebec, Canada (Mastodon)
• mastodon.ml - Russia (Mastodon)
• social.net.ua - Ukraine (Pleroma)
• vilni.space - Ukraine (Pleroma)
• mastodos.com - Kyoto, Japan (Mastodon)
• mastodon.madrid - Madrid, Spain (Mastodon)
• fedivers.net - Catalonia (Mastodon)
• mstdn.es - Spain (Mastodon)
• barcelona.social - Barcelona (Pleroma)
• masto.pt - Portugal (Mastodon)
• pleroma.pt - Portugal (Pleroma)
• mastodon.in.th - Thailand (Mastodon)
• zoltasila.pl - Poland (Pleroma)
• wroc.xyz - Wroclaw, Poland (Mastodon)
• 0x3c.pl - Trójmiasto, Poland (for all sorts of creative and technical people) (Mastodon)
• թութ.հայ - Armenia (Mastodon)
• aus.social - Australia (Mastodon)
• mastodon.green - green European Union (Mastodon)

🎬 Book / Game / Show theme

• cthulhu.social - for fans of fantastic literature and horror stories, Lovecraft (German/English speaking) (Mastodon)
• donphan.social - for Pokémon enthusiasts (Mastodon)
• cmdr.social - dedicated to Elite: Dangerous (Mastodon)

🐧 For techies

• fsmi.social - free software movement of India (Mastodon)
• floss.social - for people who support or build Free Libre Open Source Software (Mastodon)
• miaou.drycat.fr - for geeks, FOSS and cat lovers, CHATONS member (Mastodon)
• linuxrocks.online - dedicated to Linux and technologies (Mastodon)
• oldbytes.space - for old hardware fans (Mastodon)
• mathstodon.xyz - for Maths people (Mastodon)
• digipres.club - conversations about digital preservation (Mastodon)
• indieweb.social - for participants and supporters of the IndieWeb movement (Mastodon)
• osrc.pw - for people interested in open-source software, free web (Mastodon)
• cybur.nl - for anyone in Dutch infosec (Mastodon)
• noc.social - focused on technology, networking, Linux, BSD, privacy and security (Mastodon)
• techlover.eu - talk about new technologies like development, digitalart or science (Mastodon)

💻 Programming

• ruby.social - for people interested in Ruby, Rails and related topics (Mastodon)
• pythondevs.social - for Python developers of all experience levels (Mastodon)
• haskell.social - a Haskell instance for programmers, user groups, etc (Cloudflared) (Pleroma)

🎮 Gamedev

• gameliberty.club - mainly gaming / nerd instance (Mastodon)
• pcgamer.social - by PC gamer, for PC gamers (Mastodon)
• mastodon.gamedev.place - gamedev and related professions (Mastodon)

🔴 Political and social views

• hispagatos.space - for hackers, social anarchists, and anarchist hackers (Mastodon)
• activism.openworlds.info - for activists (Mastodon)
• campaign.openworlds.info - for campaigners and NGOs (Mastodon)
• eupublic.social - for people interested in a united, post-national, truly democratic Europe (Mastodon)
• leftist.network - for those with Leftist politics (Mastodon)
• traboone.com - pro-freedom of speech and expression social media platform (Pleroma)
• birdity.club - post-coronavirus libertarian social network (Pleroma)
• rizomatica.org - Italian speaking community that values social emancipation and equality (Friendica)
• ontological.city - for debating on philosophy, society, politics, degrowth and other controversial ideas (Mastodon)

🐰 Ecology and animals

• donteatanimals.org - discussion of animal rights and veganism (Mastodon)
• toot.cat - instance for cats, the people who love them, and kindness in general (Mastodon)
• climatejustice.global - for activists of the global climate justice movement (Mastodon)
• climatejustice.social - for activists of the global climate justice and social justice movement (Mastodon)
• knotenpunkt-alpen.de - German subgroup of CIPRA (an NGO committed to the protection of the Alps) and of the project Knotenpunkt-Alpen (Mastodon)

🐒 Family / Social relations

• dads.cool - anyone with a kid can be a dad (Mastodon)
• cooler.mom - anyone with a kid can be a mom (Mastodon)

🌈 Safe spaces

• tech.lgbt - for tech workers, academics, students, and others in tech who are LGBTQA+ allies (Mastodon)
• colorid.es- LGBTQIA+ / queer instance primarily for Portuguese speakers (Mastodon)
• pipou.academy - emphasis on kindness (Mastodon)
• eldritch.cafe - for queer, feminist and anarchist people (Mastodon)
• deadinsi.de - anti-fascist, LGBT friendly (Mastodon)
• notbird.site (Mastodon)

👽 Fandoms

• fandom.ink - for fans and fandoms of all types (Mastodon)

🐾 Subcultures

• aspiechattr.me - for aspies and other NDs where you can chat to other peeps with ASD, ADHD, and related conditions (Mastodon)
• this.mouse.rocks - furry instance for all the mouse adjacent folks who rock (Mastodon)
• meow.social - general furry/safe-space instance (Mastodon)
• wolfhowl.me - general alterhuman (therianthropy, otherkin) instance that welcomes all (Mastodon)
• birds.garden - a quiet, peaceful place where any bird can find refuge (Mastodon)
• pl.wizards.zone - for wizards only (Pleroma)
• vulpine.club - community for foxes and other furry (and non-furry) creatures (Cloudflared) (Mastodon)

🌏 Notable generalistic

// small-to-medium sized instances that will be happy to have new users

• venera.social - friendly humans are welcome (Friendica)
• tooting.ch - generic instance hosted by the FairSocialNet association (Mastodon)
• meld.de - your data is yours, only you decide when, where and how you share it (Friendica)
• h-y-p-e-r.space - public server located in the Netherlands (Friendica)
• unhu.xyz (Mastodon)
• kindred.haus (Mastodon)
• kafuka.me (Mastodon)
• kernel.social (Mastodon)
• nerdculture.de (Mastodon)
• weirder.earth - for thoughtful weirdos (Mastodon)
• ieji.de - no logs, has Tor .onion address (Mastodon)
• gentoo.live - everyone is welcome to join (Pleroma)
• sorcie.re - a general-discussion Fediverse instance (Pleroma)
• neue.city - a place for you and your friends (Pleroma)
• jako.social - an instance funded using web monetization (Cloudflared) (Mastodon)

😸 For people with a sense of self-irony

• sonogatto.it - a social network for cats, no registration of human beings accepted (Mastodon)
• ephemeral.glitch.social - toots are ephemeral and disappear after a while (Mastodon)

🐚 Run by tech-savvy organizations

• en.osm.town - for the OpenStreetMap Community (Mastodon)
• mastodon.hackerlab.fr - by Hackerlab (Mastodon)
• mi.pede.rs - by Hacklab-in-Mama hackerspace, Zagreb (Mastodon)
• m.g3l.org - by G3L, libre software association (Mastodon)
• mastodon.nzoss.nz - by New Zealand Open Source Society (Mastodon)
• mastodon.roflcopter.fr - by Roflcopter, CHATONS member (Mastodon)
• libretooth.gr - by LibreOps, who contribute to (re-)decentralizing the net (Mastodon)

🎉 Notable mention

// are open only to particular audience, i.e., to students of university

• mastodon.mit.edu - for the MIT community (Mastodon)
• mastodon.ocf.berkeley.edu - for Berkeley students, faculty, and staff (Mastodon)
• mastodon.acc.sunet.se - by Academic Computer Club at Umeå University, Sweden (Mastodon)
• mastodon.utwente.nl - for the University of Twente community (Mastodon)
• pleroma.debian.social - a microblogging space for Debianites (PLeroma)
• ikbenpiraat.nl - run by Pirate Party Netherlands (Pleroma)
• w3c.social - for people involved in the activities of the World Wide Web Consortium (Mastodon)
• mastodon.greenpeace.ch - by Greenpeace Switzerland (Mastodon)
• metu.life - for METU university of Turkey

Disclaimer

Following instances skipped: number of users > 5.000, closed registration at the moment of checking, running old code, theme / description not understood due to language barrier or scarce description, long blocklists, experimental servers.

Note: new server additions welcome, however, this is a curated list for newcomers - for this reason second-level, human-friendly domain names will more likely be accepted than 3-level, long, unintelligible strings of letters.

Note: servers with closed registration may be placed only in "Notable mention" category, only if they represent well-known organizations or establishments.

Add your own themed instance via merge request or send a suggestion to @lightone@mastodon.xyz via Fediverse. If your server already has many users, it will be nice of you to let other servers grow, for a healthier decentralization.

🌟 Other research links

• Fediverse Pirate Party accounts
• Mastodon server distribution research by @Leah
• Fediverse server distribution by @href