Edit: thanks everyone for the suggestions!
Do keep them coming as it might be helpful for others who come across this, since it seems quite a few users are (understandably) bleeding from lemmy.world these days, like myself

I was looking for a solid instance to move to, but I'm getting burned out from trying to find the perfect instance that:

is based in a country with reasonable privacy reputation (if it still fits the bill, outside Europe too is fine)
allows creating communities without admin approval (I'm willing to try getting into one of those too if needed, hopefully it would be accepting of creating niche communities though)
doesn't defederate indiscriminately

The tool I used is lemmyverse.net but it seems the filtering isn't working great, or I just don't understand it, e.g. I filter by Italian language and the only Italian instance I know (feddit.it) doesn't show up, while a slew of irrelevant ones is listed (Lemmy Português is there??)

Sorry if I sound so needy, maybe I'm just overthinking it, since posts are public and indexable by anyone. Do say so, if I should chill out and just pick one of the usual ones like lemm.ee etc.

P.S. I would love to self-host, but I'm currently not able to either, I don't have enough technical expertise.

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[–] Reborn2966@feddit.it 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

feddit.de and feddit.it

the German one is pretty big.

the italian one "require" you to speak Italian.

[–] QuazarOmega@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

feddit.it

Yeah I don't know how to feel about it, if I could create communities but I was restricted to keep them Italian only, then I'd be cutting out a large part of the population.

I'll take feddit.de into consideration tho

[–] AbsolutelyNotABot@feddit.it 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You're not, we also have English communities like https://feddit.it/c/askitaly And you're free to make post in English in italian communities using the English tag

The only thing they have at registration is that you need to write a sentence in "some regional italian slang" And that's basically serve the purpose to restrict a little bit sign in not to finish like lemmy.world targeting italian speakers

But it's actually pretty easy

[–] QuazarOmega@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Oh that makes sense actually, it's an interesting admission process, I would probably (totally) gravely offend my culture if I tried writing in my dialect that I already barely speak, but I'll pay the price if have to lol