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"Server" has been pretty normalized (albeit abused) by discord especially, so it seems accessible to me?
"Instance" does seem vague and overly techy to me, it's an oop/code term (think "instantiate the class") that's been borrowed for casual use.
"Community=subreddit" sounds pretty good, but runs the risk of being misinterpreted as more of a "community = discord server" thing...
I'm also fond of matrix's "homeserver", a server that (while your home) isn't your only location, but that might be entirely foreign to new users too.
Definitely a tricky problem