I am struggling with decision paralysis trying to choose an instance. I’ve never been on Mastodon before.
I am tired of euro-centric and US-centric Internet spaces, but still enjoy the international aspect. Are there any instances with decent international presence?
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Maybe https://instances.social/ can help you to find a suitable instance.
If you want to self-host I would recommend Pleroma over Mastodon. As you already mentioned in the other comment, Mastodon is really resource heavy while Pleroma easily runs on a cheap SoC.