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:
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.
I never knew one existed there 😯
Huh, that exists? I thought no one in SK would care enough to host a lemmy instance.
I care enough to host one
Strange that Spain and Norway don’t have its own instance. Big countries
Norway easily has the money to spare for an Lemmy instance. Where’s our feddit.no!
We’re taking a free ride on the Finns. [email protected]
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.
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 ;)
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.
Well technically Lemmygrad.ml is hosted in Norway. But then you would have to deal with tankies.
Actually in Spain there are a Catalan and a Basque instances. Go represent this on your map :)
Can you please share what they are
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
Guten Tag
aber dieses Mal mache ich eine Ausnahme. ♥️Ich bin MrNemobody.
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.
I found just one Japanese instance. It is unfortunate that Lemmy is not well-known in Japan.
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?
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.
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.
What’s the US one?
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.
The server is in Finland, actually. I am in The Netherlands, so is the non-profit foundation owning LW.
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!
I’m based in Luxembourg, and so is Haidra. Therefore I think we have that covered, even if we’re not specifically country-based.
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
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.
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.
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.
Thanks. Very interesting, I would think that is a nightmare for phishing and similar threats, but maybe they have good monitoring or oversight.
You have to apply for a trademark to use the name.ua domain.
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!
Tbh, I’d prefer a list.
Here are the European ones (partly nicked from @[email protected]’s list on Reddit:
- Basque Country: https://lemmy.eus/
- 🇧🇬 Bulgaria: https://feddit.bg/
- Catalonia: https://lemmy.cat/
- 🇩🇰 Denmark, including Greenland (for now): https://feddit.dk/
- 🇫🇷🇧🇪🇨🇭 France, Belgium, Switzerland: https://jlai.lu/
- 🇩🇪🇦🇹🇨🇭🇱🇮 Germany, Austria and Switzerland: https://feddit.org/
- 🇫🇮 Finland: https://sopuli.xyz/ and https://suppo.fi/
- 🇮🇸 Iceland: https://feddit.is/
- 🇮🇹 Italy: https://feddit.it/
- 🇳🇱 Netherlands: https://feddit.nl/ and https://lemy.nl/
- 🇵🇱 Poland: https://fedit.pl/ and https://szmer.info/
- 🇵🇹 Portugal: https://lemmy.pt/
- 🇸🇪 Sweden: https://feddit.nu/
- 🇹🇷 Turkey: https://lemmy.com.tr/
- 🇬🇧 UK: https://feddit.uk/
Others that have come up in the discussion here OT elsewhere:
- 🇦🇺 Australia: https://aussie.zone/
- 🇧🇩 Bangladesh: https://buddyverse.one/
- 🇧🇪 Belgium: https://0d.gs/
- 🇧🇷 Brazil: http://lemmy.eco.br/
- 🇨🇦 Canada: https://lemmy.ca/ and https://sh.itjust.works/
- 🇨🇱 Chile: https://feddit.cl/
- 🇱🇹 Lithuania: https://group.lt/
- 🇱🇺 Luxembourg: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/
- 🇲🇾 Malaysia: https://monyet.cc/
- 🇲🇽 Mexico: https://mujico.org/
- 🇳🇿 New Zealand: https://lemmy.nz/
- 🇯🇵 Japan: https://lm.korako.me/
- 🇸🇮 Slovenia: https://gregtech.eu/
- 🇰🇷 South Korea: https://lemmy.funami.tech/
- 🇺🇸 USA: https://lemmyusa.com/ and https://discuss.online/, also for the Midwest: https://midwest.social/
Defunct:
- 🇭🇺
Hungary: https://fost.hu/ - 🇮🇩
Indonesia:https://lemmy.id/ - 🇯🇵
Japan: https://feddit.jp/ - 🇷🇴
Romania: https://feddit.ro/ - 🇪🇸
Spain: http://eslemmy.es/ or https://lemuria.es/ - 🇨🇭
Switzerland: https://feddit.ch/ - 🇺🇦
Ukraine: https://feddit.kyiv.ua/
need a bangladeshi instance
Got it: https://buddyverse.one/
- 🇭🇺
@[email protected] @[email protected] did I miss any?
Your list is pretty comprehensive!
You could add:
https://lemmy.world/ to 🇳🇱
Maybe https://slrpnk.net/ to 🇵🇹 as that’s where they’re hosted.
Also you can add the Lechestein flag 🇱🇮to Feddit.org as they’re German speaking.
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.
