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
Would be kinda cool to have some more African and south+east Asian instances. I would happily donate to help get some instances hosted in poorer countries.
Tbh, I’d prefer a list.
Here are the European ones (partly nicked from @Blaze@feddit.org’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/
https://lemuria.es/ still has a Lemmy instance running, if any Spaniards are enthusatic, they could try emailing the @admin, @contact, etc addresses and see if the owner will transfer it over to you. I’m sure we can rummage up enough help to get it back up and running if you get control.
need a bangladeshi instance
Got it: https://buddyverse.one/
- 🇭🇺
@Blaze@feddit.org @Sunshine@lemmy.ca 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.
Guten Tag
aber dieses Mal mache ich eine Ausnahme. ♥️Ich bin MrNemobody.
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.
I found just one Japanese instance. It is unfortunate that Lemmy is not well-known in Japan.
Bangladesh has one busdyverse.one by ml
you know any other ones?
It’s the only one I saw
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 🤣
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.
There was a spanish Lemmy instance eslemmy.es or something similar, but apparently it’s been down for months
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.
This is where the machine is hosted? I am thinking about the domain they used might be a different one. Example I would take where it is cheapest to host it.
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
What is the Portugal one?
Strange that Spain and Norway don’t have its own instance. Big countries
https://lemuria.es/ still seems to be running a Lemmy instance, so there is hope. 🤞
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 ;)
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. !norway@sopuli.xyz
Those electric cars aren’t going to pay for themselves!
They’re probably busy spending it on surströmming
No… nobody is eating that except for the sweeds
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 🤭
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.
What websites do you notice a lot of Spanish people using?
The biggest forum style ones are https://forocoches.com/foro/forumdisplay.php?f=2 & https://www.meneame.net/ But also algorithm driven ones like Instagram and tiktok.
Spain idk but an autonomous region of spain does hace one, lemmy.eus
Actually in Spain there are a Catalan and a Basque instances. Go represent this on your map :)
Can you please share what they are
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.
Zero “tankies” think Russia is communist; it’s a belief held entirely by ignorant western liberals like justanotherkay
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
Mate, if you’re so fucking ignorant on the subject that you’ve never heard of the collapse of the Soviet union, you should not be commenting on it.
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
Russia
Jesus Christ, the willingness of westerners to make statements about things they are completely ignorant of is astounding.
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.
