fediparty/source/en/portal/servers/index.md

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post	Themed servers

Unsure where to register to join Fediverse? Choose a website from this curated list. It includes Mastodon, Pleroma and Akkoma, Friendica, Misskey and Hubzilla 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)

🎨 Humanities

• oulipo.social - a lipogrammatic server (Mastodon)

🎓 Education

• tusk.schoollibraries.net - helping educators improve the School Libraries Resource Network (Mastodon)
• mastodon.oeru.org - for educators and learners involved in the OERu

🎵 Music

• koreadon.com - for K-POP music fans (Mastodon)
• feedbeat.me - dedicated to culture and events such as music, poetry, comedy (German) (Mastodon)

🔭 Interests and hobbies

• screenwriting.space - a place for storytellers (Mastodon)
• rollenspiel.social - (German) roleplay, Pen & Paper, tabletop, TCG, for all gamers (Mastodon)
• radiosocial.de - for German radio amateurs (Mastodon)
• pl.nudie.social - For naturists, nudists, clothes-free living (Pleroma)

🚄 Travel, Transport and Infrastructure

• rail.chat - discussions about long-distance, passenger and freight rail networks for economic, environmental and equity benefits (Mastodon)

🎏 Language specific

• toki.social - for those interested in toki pona (Mastodon)
• mastodon.sk - for Slovak users (Mastodon)
• mastodon.eus - for Euskera/Basque speakers (Mastodon)
• xarxa.cloud - for Catalan and Spanish speakers (Mastodon)
• mastodon.fedi.bzh - for Breton and Gallo speakers (Mastodon)
• gomastodon.cz - for Czech users (Mastodon)
• mk.phreedom.club - for Russian users (Misskey)
• librosphere.fr - for French speakers (Pleroma)
• mastodon.nu - For Swedish speakers (Mastodon)
• norrebro.space - For Danish speakers (Mastodon)
• loðfíll.is - For Icelandic speakers (Mastodon)

⛺ Regional

• muenchen.social - Munich, Germany (Mastodon)
• mastodon.bayern - Bavaria, Germany (Mastodon)
• ruhr.social - Ruhr area, Germany (Mastodon)
• social.cologne - Cologne, Germany (Mastodon)
• nrw.social - North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (Mastodon)
• social.saarland - Saarland, Germany (Mastodon)
• dresden.network - Dresden, Germany (Mastodon)
• machteburch.social - Magdeburg, Germany (Mastodon)
• fulda.social - Fulda, Germany (Mastodon)
• brandenburg.social - Brandenburg, Germany (Mastodon)
• berlin.social - Berlin, Germany (Mastodon)
• osna.social - Osnabrück, Germany (Mastodon)
• fem.social - Ilmenau, Germany (Mastodon)
• friendica.a-zwenkau.de - Zwenkau, Germany (Friendica)
• chaotic.social - Hannover, Germany (Mastodon)
• frankfurt.social - Frankfurt, Germany (Mastodon)
• harz.social - Harz area, Germany (Mastodon)
• rheinneckar.social - Rhein-Neckar area, Germany (Mastodon)
• nahe.social - Nahe region, Germany (Mastodon)
• moessingen.social - Mössingen area, Germany (Mastodon)
• graz.social - Graz, Austria (Mastodon)
• krems.social - Krems, Austria (Mastodon)
• fedi.at - Austria (Mastodon)
• oslo.town - Oslo, Norway (Mastodon)
• norrebro.space - Denmark (Mastodon)
• mastodon.nl - Netherlands (Mastodon)
• mastodon.scot - Scotland, or who identify as Scottish (Mastodon)
• glasgow.social - Glasgow, Scotland (Mastodon)
• bath.social - Bath, UK (Mastodon)
• socialclub.nyc - New York, USA (Mastodon)
• social.tulsa.ok.us - Tulsa, Northeast Oklahoma, USA (Mastodon)
• sfba.social - San Francisco Bay Area, USA (Mastodon)
• leafposter.club - Canada (Pleroma)
• mstdn.es - Spain (Mastodon)
• barcelona.social - Barcelona (Pleroma)
• mastodon.in.th - Thailand (Mastodon)
• aus.social - Australia (Mastodon)
• mastodon.green - green European Union (Mastodon)
• wien.rocks - Vienna, Austria (Mastodon)

🎬 Book / Game / Show theme

• osrs.club - themed around Old School Runescape (Pleroma)

🐧 For techies

• techlover.eu - talk about new technologies like development, digital art or science (Mastodon)

💻 Programming

• pythondevs.social - for Python developers of all experience levels (Pleroma)

🔴 Political and social views

• campaign.openworlds.info - for campaigners and NGOs (Mastodon)

🐰 Ecology and animals

• toot.cat - instance for cats, the people who love them, and kindness in general (Mastodon)
• climatejustice.social - for activists of the global climate justice and social justice movement (Mastodon)

👽 Fandoms

• bungle.online - fandom instance, post media, fan art and fanfiction (Misskey)

🐾 Subcultures

• this.mouse.rocks - furry instance for all the mouse adjacent folks who rock (Mastodon)
• birds.garden - a quiet, peaceful place where any bird can find refuge (Pleroma)
• stop.voring.me - fun hangout for furries and normies alike (Calckey)

🌏 Notable generalistic

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

• appalachian.town
• venera.social - friendly humans are welcome (Friendica)
• nerdculture.de (Mastodon)
• ieji.de - has Tor .onion address (Mastodon)
• misskey.de - hosted in Helsinki (Misskey)
• wienermobile.rentals - for all reasonable people (Pleroma)
• howlr.me - for members of niche and alternative lifestyle communities; originally alterhuman focused (Akkoma)
• social.sp-codes.de - main language is German (Mastodon)

🐚 Run by tech-savvy organizations

Instances which declare to be affiliated with an incorporate non-profit (usually an association or cooperative) and to follow its policies

• en.osm.town - for the OpenStreetMap Community (Mastodon)
• pouet.chapril.org - Chapril/April, free software association, France (Mastodon)
• swiss-chaos.social - Chaos Computer Club Switzerland (Mastodon)

🎉 Notable mention

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

• mastodon.mit.edu - for the MIT community (Mastodon)
• mastodon.acc.sunet.se - by Academic Computer Club at Umeå University, Sweden (Mastodon)
• metu.life - for METU university of Turkey (Mastodon)

🎉 Various (registration by application)

// these servers may be removed in future automated updates due to signups by application

• augsburg.social - Augsburg, Germany (Mastodon)
• wue.social - Würzburg (and the neighbourhood), Germany (Mastodon)
• bonn.social - Bonn, Germany (Mastodon)
• krefeld.life - Krefeld, Germany (Mastodon)
• darmstadt.social - Darmstadt, Germany (Mastodon)
• norden.social - Northern Germany (Mastodon)
• snabelen.no - Norway (Mastodon)
• mastodon.se - Sweden (Mastodon)
• tukkers.online - Twente region, Netherlands (Mastodon)
• mastodon.opencloud.lu - Luxembourg (private and public organisations) (Mastodon)
• mastodon.uy - Uruguay (Mastodon)
• chilemasto.casa - Chile (Mastodon)
• mastodon.ie - Ireland (Mastodon)
• mastodon.org.uk - UK (Mastodon)
• mastodon.me.uk - UK tech community (Mastodon)
• kcmo.social - Kansas City, USA (Mastodon)
• mastodos.com - Kyoto, Japan (Mastodon)
• mastodon.madrid - Madrid, Spain (Mastodon)
• masto.pt - Portugal (Mastodon)
• scicomm.xyz - for scientists and science enthusiasts (Mastodon)
• fediscience.org - for publishing scientists, from natural sciences to the humanities (Mastodon)
• writing.exchange - community for poets, writers, bloggers (Mastodon)
• imaginair.es - for writers, painters, cartoonists and people with imagination (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 and history jokes (Mastodon)
• iztasocial.site - discussions about psychology for professors of SUAyED Psicología university of Mexico (Mastodon)
• openbiblio.social - German libraries and information facilities (Mastodon)
• ausglam.space - Australian galleries, libraries, archives, museums and records people (Mastodon)
• linernotes.club - for discussing music recordings (Mastodon)
• bostonmusic.online - digital space serving the Boston music scene (Mastodon)
• tabletop.social - for tabletop gamers
• mastodon.radio - for Amateur (Ham) Radio community (Mastodon)
• kith.kitchen - food and cooking (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)
• floss.social - for people who support or build Free Libre Open Source Software (Mastodon)
• linuxrocks.online - dedicated to Linux and technologies (Mastodon)
• mathstodon.xyz - for Maths people (Mastodon)
• digipres.club - conversations about digital preservation (Mastodon)
• phpc.social - PHP community
• eupublic.social - for people interested in a united, post-national, truly democratic Europe (Mastodon)
• dads.cool - anyone with a kid can be a dad (Mastodon)
• tech.lgbt - for tech workers, academics, students, and others in tech who are LGBTQA+ allies (Mastodon)
• colorid.es- Spanish LGBTQIA+ / queer instance primarily for Portuguese speakers (Mastodon)
• fandom.ink - for fans and fandoms of all types (Mastodon)
• aspiechattr.me - for aspies and other NDs where you can chat to other peeps with ASD, ADHD, and related conditions (Mastodon)
• meow.social - general furry/safe-space instance (Mastodon)
• tooting.ch - generic instance hosted by the FairSocialNet association (Mastodon)
• weirder.earth - for thoughtful weirdos (Hometown-Mastodon)
• m.g3l.org - by G3L, libre software association (Mastodon)
• digitalcourage.social - by DigitalCourage (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)
• photog.social - place for your photos (Mastodon)
• mastodon.cc - for art (Mastodon)
• theres.life - for Christians (Mastodon)
• mastodon.ocf.berkeley.edu - for Berkeley students, faculty, and staff (Mastodon)
• fikaverse.club - Swedish and other Scandinavian languages (Mastodon)
• scholar.social - for researchers, undergrads, journal editors, librarians, administrators (Mastodon)
• literatur.social - for German speaking authors and literary people (Mastodon)
• dobbs.town - open to members of The Church of the SubGenius (Mastodon)
• wpbuilds.social - for those who love Wordpress and open source (Mastodon)
• feuerwehr.social - for all firefighters in German-speaking countries (Mastodon)
• dragonscave.space - instance with a blind and visually impaired membership, welcome to everyone who is a nice person (Mastodon)
• mastodon.gougere.fr - Auxerre, France (Mastodon)
• stereodon.social - self-managed social network devoted to underground music (Italian, English languages) (Mastodon)
• solarpunk.moe - for solarpunk nerds (Mastodon)
• leftist.network - for those with Leftist politics (Mastodon)
• PCGamer.social - by the PC gamer, for the PC gamer (Mastodon)
• poliverso.org - dedicated to politics and digital rights (Italian speaking) (Friendica)
• rheinland.social - Rheinland, Germany (Mastodon)
• social.politicaconciencia.org - community about politics, science and culture for Spanish speakers (Mastodon)
• andalucia.social - Andalucia, Spain (Mastodon)
• polyglot.city - for multilingual and polyglots (Mastodon)
• esperanto.masto.host - for those interested in Esperanto (Mastodon)
• masto.nobigtech.es - for Spanish speakers (Mastodon)
• triangletoot.party - Triangle region of North Carolina, USA (Mastodon)
• ruby.social - for people interested in Ruby, Rails and related topics (Mastodon)
• pcgamer.social - by PC gamer, for PC gamers (Mastodon)
• activism.openworlds.info - for activists (Mastodon)
• pipou.academy - French community with emphasis on kindness (Mastodon)
• mastodontti.fi - For Finnish speakers (Mastodon)
• snabelen.no - For Norwegian speakers (Mastodon)
• sociale.network - For Italian speakers (Mastodon)
• mastodon.ml - Russia (Mastodon)
• cmdr.social - dedicated to Elite: Dangerous and space exploration (Mastodon)
• fsmi.social - free software movement of India (Mastodon)
• indieweb.social - for participants and supporters of the IndieWeb movement (Mastodon)

Disclaimer

Following instances skipped: number of users > 5.000, closed registration at the moment of checking, behind Cloudflare, 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

• Pirate Parties in Fediverse
• Mastodon server distribution research by @Leah