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?
If you mean non-eurocentric, non-US-centric ones:
If you mean having people from many places, pretty much all instances I know are hosted by Europeans or USian, but have members from elsewhere.
On Pleroma, it doesn’t matter much. There is less connection between instance members on Pleroma in my experience, since the instance timeline contains not only their posts, but also their replies to other.