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.
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.
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.
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/
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.
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.
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
Feddit.ro exists, i think
Feddit.dk in the house 👋
@sortekanin@feddit.dk.
No Greece? Also no India, Indonesia and Japan? Damn that’s unexpected.
There is (was?) an Indian one… but run by hindutva (extreme 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.
Guten Tag
aber dieses Mal mache ich eine Ausnahme. ♥️
Lemmy.eco.br representative here
Olá!!
