Submitted 1 year ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to fediverse@lemmy.world
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It should be noted that Feddit.org was included to represent Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
I did not include Baraza.africa as that was too encompassing as it covers the whole African continent.
Hopefully this post inspires more countries to join the blue club!
Tbh, I’d prefer a list.
Here are the European ones (partly nicked from @Blaze@feddit.org’s list on Reddit:
Others that have come up in the discussion here:
Bangladesh has one busdyverse.one by ml
you know any other ones?
It’s the only one I saw
Would be kinda cool to have some more African and south+east Asian instances. I would happily donate to help get some instances hosted in poorer countries.
This is where the machine is hosted? I am thinking about the domain they used might be a different one. Example I would take where it is cheapest to host it.
Cool map.
I was expecting a list.
seriously speaking, how much work is to host an instance actually? Besides buying the domain and getting it up and running on some cloud/homelab? The are any security concerns or maintenance that would take a lot of my time? Do I need to put some effort in instance level moderation, or that comes from communities? How many resources/hardware an instance uses per user?
I would also like to know this!
feddit.uk represent! Best inna worl’! Oo are ya, oo are ya? Come an’ 'ave a go if you think yer’ardinuff!
And so forth, I’m sure you get the general gist.
It’s not a bad idea with the push to end sectoon 230 by Chuck Schumer on behalf of the entertainment industry. Copyright trolls would come crawling out of the woodwork and sue the owner. Meta would weaponize it by intentionally posting infringing and other illegal content in order to shut down competition.
Iirc there’s one vietnamese guy on here that does tech related stuff
There was a Vietnamese instance for a short while, but it seems like they got scared off with how restrictive their governments internet policy is.
Fuck really? I liked that guy
I swear Mujico (Mexico) was around for a bit. I wonder if it’s still up.
Feddit.ro exists
Its barely used though
Are we talking “nations that have an official Lemmy instance” or “nations in which some private citizen or resident just happens to host a Lemmy instance?”
I mean in the post to represent official Lemmy instances.
Probably the latter.
What’s the US one?
Sometimes it feels like .world is
midwest.social is sorta the defacto US-specific instance despite the name pointing to a specific region.
But isnt it not hosted in the US?
Ah, that makes sense from the name.
Lemmy.world
Thats german iirc.
Oh, I thought the server was located in a different country. It’s a bad idea to have a server in a location that the US government has authority over.
I’m giving this a thumbs up xD
I’d love to get down to the city level, even
Mastodon is getting to that point.
I live right next to this hetzer box!
legitimate.
No Greece? Also no India, Indonesia and Japan? Damn that’s unexpected.
There is (was?) an Indian one… but run by hindutva right-wing nationalists, so I think we can skip that one.
There is also one that is located in Japan, but no idea if it can be described as an instance for Japan.
The is a Greek sub, with a few news posts daily, but noone is really commenting yet.
I had left the Greek sub on Reddit a few years back because the mods were assholes, so I don’t really miss a Greek sub to be honest.
Which one is the Greek community? Those that I found are dead.
Can somebody also make join-lemmy.org notice that our instance exists? Can’t get it listed, even though we comply with the requirements for a while now.
It’s on the website now.
Wow, not sure if you did something or it was there all along… But I used to search for it by language. And the language is not there anymore :D
But seriously, thank you.
My instance is Slovenian, you can add it to the list
This seems to be missing Mali, the home of .ml. It’s in West Africa and since the French soldiers left it’s been an authoritarian client state of Russia. Very appropriate.
ml represents all dictatorships…
Dictatorship of the proletariat, sure. But not for long IMO.
Mentioning the French troops was a bit offtopic. But my point stands. Mali is a semi-failed state that seems to have exchanged one set of foreign lords for another, much worse, set.
Well I guess this is only the domain and their server us hosted elsewhere. But good point.
True, but it still gives the Malian government an ultimate authority over the domain, which just seems completely dumb to me. The also-semi-failed Libya has ultimate authority over ly domains (like bit.ly) and has actually used its power to shut down domains for being against Libyan law. Domain hacks are not just ugly, they’re dumb.
Hello I live in the little gap there that is Belgium
In America we just call that French Germany
excuse me, we are also Dutch Germany
Just a speedbump for the german fediverse army
Hello from lemmy.today!
Howdy boss
Feddit.dk in the house 👋
@sortekanin@feddit.dk.
¡Siempre hay un chileno!
(Curiosamente no tengo cuenta en la instancia de Chile. Debería arreglar eso.)
La cantidad de latinos es muy baja u.u
La cantidad de latinos es muy baja u.u
Sí, falta más gente
I’ve already blocked most of these because they all use Wingdings font
Nah rekabu.ru is definitely hosted in Moscow.
There it is the Russian instance.
I’m surprised Lemmy apparently hasn’t had any penetration into the Spanish-speaking world yet. Is there some other Reddit-like service that’s popular with those folks?
It took us forever to adopt Reddit. I’m guessing it’ll take us just as long to move to FOSS. On the bright side, Lemmy is gathering some attention.
Here’s one instance for Mexico mujico.org and I think there was one for one other SA country.
There was a spanish Lemmy instance eslemmy.es or something similar, but apparently it’s been down for months
Chinese gotta use state-approved and controlled mainstream apps and media, or access foreign stuff via VPN. Homegrown, off the grid stuff like Lemmy only gets by as long as it’s obscure.
If it’s big enough and ornery (includes political content, rather than say just all cooking recipes and form) it’s liable to be blocked.
Which country is Block Island south of Hawaii?
I’m pretty sure that’s French Polynesia
Strange that Spain and Norway don’t have its own instance. Big countries
Well technically Lemmygrad.ml is hosted in Norway. But then you would have to deal with tankies.
lemuria.es still seems to be running a Lemmy instance, so there is hope. 🤞
Spain had smaller presence on Reddit as well. They tend to keep to other spanish speaking forums, often shared with Latin America.
Basically because there are so many Spanish speakers in the world, spaniards don’t even bother to learn English or interact with the broader internet.
What websites do you notice a lot of Spanish people using?
rotmulaaginskyrim@programming.dev 1 year ago
do these lemmy instances also generally get hosted in that country, to keep latencies low for population in those countries? needn’t be i guess, but wonder if it is a prevalent pattern