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!
Me from the only Lemmy instance in South Korea:
I never knew one existed there 😯
Ive searched everywhere for an Arab/middle eastern instance, and the only one I could find was a fucking Turkish one (that I think is dead too lmao). I’d do it my self but L + no money + too lazy
Hosting your own instance starts off with paying out of pocket then once you set up donations from the community those dollars would fund most of the operating costs. However as the instance gets larger the economies of scale improve and eventually you may have some money leftover to put aside. You could also sell merch of the logos like stickers to help with keeping the lights on.
A lemmy instance needs a domain name, a host and a smtp email for notifications.
I wonder what the Lemmy.world server operations are like.
Interesting thank you. Personally I’m too westernized (not even western, just spend too much time around them lol) to run a whole instance for it, but I’ll keep an eye if someone ever creates one.
Huh, that exists? I thought no one in SK would care enough to host a lemmy instance.
I care enough to host one
Guten Tag
aber dieses Mal mache ich eine Ausnahme. ♥️Ich bin MrNemobody.
Ukraine has an instance: https://feddit.kyiv.ua/
The domain has expiried.
I am actually surprised they got that on the first place. That’s a very major domain name to have…
It looks like the major city names (and maybe others) are registered by the government and allow people to register subdomains.
You have to apply for a trademark to use the name.ua domain.
Thanks. Very interesting, I would think that is a nightmare for phishing and similar threats, but maybe they have good monitoring or oversight.
The admin is still figuring things out 🤣
As a Belgian running an instance:
Am I a joke to you?
I’m kidding ofcourse, and I’m not really representing my country, except for an aptly named community.
Looks like we’re going to use your instance as a neutral meeting place for all the EU instance admins.
A long held tradition by my countrymen! Rejoice!
until we all start a major global conflict by invading you. also tradition
Preposterous, I will discuss this with my 18 political parties and come back to you within 200 days.
The alliance needs to respond quickly to this threat!
The north and south will make contradictory statements about it and the federal decision will be somewhere in between
Just in case, there is also the french version of !belgique@jlai.lu :)
Same, I’ve had to surf along with The Neighbours to find something close by and stable…
Lemmy.world is also hosted in the Netherlands IIRC, I’m just proxying through the UK.
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?”
Probably the latter.
I mean in the post to represent official Lemmy instances.
Strange that Spain and Norway don’t have its own instance. Big countries
Norway only has a population of 5.5million. The area is relativly big though.
That’s about the same amount we have in BC. Norway must be crowded.
Not sure if I missed a joke or not. But no, Norway is far from crowded.
It’s relatively to me ;)
Actually in Spain there are a Catalan and a Basque instances. Go represent this on your map :)
Norway easily has the money to spare for an Lemmy instance. Where’s our feddit.no!
Jeg tror ikke det er nok av oss her, men… faen… BÅDE svenskene og danskene, men ikke oss?? Flaut.
**Translation: ** I don’t think there’s enough of us here, but… fuck… BOTH the Swedes and Danes, but not us?? Embarrassing.
Looks like Norway loses this game 🤭
We’re taking a free ride on the Finns. !norway@sopuli.xyz
Those electric cars aren’t going to pay for themselves!
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.
https://lemuria.es/ still seems to be running a Lemmy instance, so there is hope. 🤞
Spain idk but an autonomous region of spain does hace one, lemmy.eus
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…
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
lydomains (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.
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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.
Don’t bother, he’s a pro-china anti-western shill, his comment history is a mess
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Firstly, the French troops were invited by Mali’s government to help it put down its jihadist insurgents. The Russian ones were invited, in turn, for the same reason, after a media-propaganda campaign by Russia that played on historic animosity dating from the colonial period. A propaganda campaign filled with angry rhetoric and sounding much like your rant.
Meanwhile, Mali is still a semi-failed state with a jihadi problem which was caused by neither France nor Russia. And on top of that it now has brutal boorish Russian mercenaries instead of generally well-behaved French regular soldiers. Mali got a terrible deal and it was their own fault.
You know why I’m not embarrassed to say that? Precisely because I’m not a colonialist. I believe that Mali is not a child, it’s an adult. It has agency, it’s not a colony of anyone, it’s a sovereign country that can make choices for itself. If anyone’s views here are colonialist, it’s yours.
I’m based in Luxembourg, and so is Haidra. Therefore I think we have that covered, even if we’re not specifically country-based.
Oooh nice we got Luxembourg covered like sopuli.xyz!
Another cool fact about db0 ;)
Let’s put !luxembourg@lemmy.world in lemmy.dbzer0.com 😁
But they’re landlubbers!
Luxembourg is landlocked, it’s not their fault.
But we have the Uewersauer lake!
Nice idea ! :D
Damn, I thought dbzer0 was greek. Cheers eitherway.
I am personally Greek, but I’m based in Luxembourg.
Ironic how this doesn’t include communist countries.
Do any exist?
I think there’s like 12 countries that still claim to be communist. Cuba, China and Russia off the top of my head and there’s a handful of island nations that are doing quite well with it
russia decidedly does not continue to claim to be communist. putin’s parties have all been various forms of anti-comm far right nationalist parties. the idea that russia is still a champion of communism worldwide is some weapons grade tankie copium
And tankies actually think China is communist.
nope. nobody think China is communist. Not even the Chinese. This shows you don’t know shit about it.
Oh man I made the mistake of saying the word Russia and now I must be evil. You’re right, they’re not technically communist and after double checking yeah they don’t claim it anymore either. Last time I really cared about Russia’s internals was quite a while ago, and despite few changes to their economic system they definitely used to at least claim to be communist. Or that was my understanding at the time.
The point still stands, a handful of countries claim to be communist. A handful of countries are communist. Whether that’s a good or bad thing is up to you to decide
i don’t think you’re evil. i just think it’s fascinating how pervasive “russia is still communist” is as a talking point when it’s decidedly not
I remember googling “which countries are still communist” back around 2018ish and Russia being at the top of many lists. It’s just another ripple effect from propaganda that hasn’t died out yet.
That being said, fighting propaganda is much easier with gentler words instead of name-calling in my experience
where did i name call? i was just pointing out that it’s some tankie propaganda. i think your post was overall fine. ohhhh, wait did you think i was calling you a tankie? shit, i didn’t mean that, i just meant the propaganda was tankist in origin
Neither claim to be communists.
How? Even though Lemmy has lots of commies, it has nothing inherently to do with communism.
The whole federative idea is communism
All communist countries used the communism idea to trick their people into a fascist government.
That’s true, but it doesn’t mean truly communist ideas don’t exist. Both the Fediverse and Free Software, as concepts, are pretty darn “from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs” if you think about it, ya know?
All fascists have always used leftist promises to gain support. That talk has never matched their actions. Some people learn to not trust lying, many don’t.
Bad actors don’t usually go telling it outright, it needs to be masked with something people need, without delivering.
I’m surprised Lemmy apparently has had hardly any penetration into the Spanish-speaking world yet. Is there some other Reddit-like service that’s popular with those folks?
Also a long those lines, I wonder what services the Indians and Chinese are using?
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.
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 https://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
Lemmy.eco.br representative here
Olá!!
Feddit.dk in the house 👋
@sortekanin@feddit.dk.
My instance is Slovenian, you can add it to the list
I’m in the process of setting one up for Iceland, feddit.is. Mostly there, just some final touches.
I’m in and I love the theme! The little island will be more self-sufficient thanks to you! Lets hop into a hot spring some time!
Thanks! Set the Icelandic blue color as the primary color, think it looks pretty nice.
Works well.
Awesome, I can’t wait to see it! It wouldn’t take too much to get the whole island on board.
Make sure it’s far away from a Volcano though.
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.
