Awhile ago another user requested that we list European Friendica instances in the sidebar of this community, and I had to go researching.

Friendica has a pretty cool map and a list on their page of all the instances, but not all of them are actively maintained or open for registrations, so I had to take a better look at them.

Criteria:

signups enabled

european / hosted in europe

more than few months old

friendica version up to date

more than 0 active users (many 0 active user servers seem to be more "play around with friendica -servers or single self hosted account servers)

Surprising amount of European instances, but sadly many of them didn't meet the criteria. Here's the list I came up with:

Austria: friendica.io

~~France: poliverso.org~~

Germany: many options, too many.

I'm looking for recommendations and hoping someone here knows friendica bit better and could recommend a german instance or two!

France: Social.trom.tf

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[–] ruud@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Well we run Friendica.World which is European but I wouldn't recommend registering there just yet, we first need to get performance issues fixed..

[–] ruud@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I see you have set it as spotlight though ;-)

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

You bet, let me know when it’s a good time to promote the instance when the runway is clear!

[–] informapirata@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Poliverso.org is NOT a French instance but an Italian instance!

Can you correct it, please?

Know that social.trom.tf is a perfect instance for the French-speaking public

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

I will add a disclaimer underneath. Thank you for this!