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!

    • fxomt
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      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

      • Sunshine (she/her)OP
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        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.

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          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.

  • @[email protected]
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    433 months ago

    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.

  • Captain Aggravated
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    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?”

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    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?

    • @[email protected]
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      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.

    • Lemminary
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      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.

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    I’m based in Luxembourg, and so is Haidra. Therefore I think we have that covered, even if we’re not specifically country-based.

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    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      Well I guess this is only the domain and their server us hosted elsewhere. But good point.

      • @[email protected]
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        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.

      • @[email protected]
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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.

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          Don’t bother, he’s a pro-china anti-western shill, his comment history is a mess

          • @[email protected]
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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.

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      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!

    • Sunshine (she/her)OP
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      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        103 months ago

        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.

  • Lena
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    My instance is Slovenian, you can add it to the list