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!
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!
Cool map.
I was expecting a list.
I swear Mujico (Mexico) was around for a bit. I wonder if it’s still up.
Edit: It’s still alive and kicking! https://mujico.org/
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.
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.
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
Oh, I thought their 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.
Lemmy.world is hosted in the Netherlands, if I’m not mistaken.
That’s what I thought. I don’t know if any big ones are hosted in the US.
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
Quite surprised to see Ukraine doesn’t have its own instance
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.
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.
Feddit.ro exists, i think
My instance is Slovenian, you can add it to the list
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.
Me from the only Lemmy instance in South Korea:
Huh, that exists? I thought no one in SK would care enough to host a lemmy instance.
I care enough to host one
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.
Hello I live in the little gap there that is Belgium
Just a speedbump for the
germanfediverse armyIn America we just call that French Germany
excuse me, we are also Dutch Germany
