Every Country That Has Their Own Lemmy Instance
from Sunshine@lemmy.ca to fediverse@lemmy.world on 25 Feb 2025 10:31
https://lemmy.ca/post/39700092
from Sunshine@lemmy.ca to fediverse@lemmy.world on 25 Feb 2025 10:31
https://lemmy.ca/post/39700092
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!
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Hey. Cant believe my country is in there. Never knew that. Wonder what is the instance name.
What’s your country? Maybe we can help
Hey. Thanks for offering but i just found it.
No worries, glad you found it!
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Lol. No worries. I prefer to keep it down low where i live. I found it anyway. Pretty easy to find it. Thanks!
Staying private is understandable.
Ah. Australian. ;)
Aaaah, a fellow Batman Beyond enjoyer!
I’m based in Luxembourg, and so is Haidra. Therefore I think we have that covered, even if we’re not specifically country-based.
Oooh nice we got Luxembourg covered like sopuli.xyz!
Another cool fact about db0 ;)
Let’s put !luxembourg@lemmy.world in lemmy.dbzer0.com 😁
But they’re landlubbers!
Luxembourg is landlocked, it’s not their fault.
But we have the Uewersauer lake!
Nice idea ! :D
Damn, I thought dbzer0 was greek. Cheers eitherway.
I am personally Greek, but I’m based in Luxembourg.
Ironic how this doesn’t include communist countries.
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.
That’s true, but it doesn’t mean truly communist ideas don’t exist. Both the Fediverse and Free Software, as concepts, are pretty darn “from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs” if you think about it, ya know?
Liberals turning the word “fascist” from a specific term that allowed the analysis and identification of specific political phenomena, into just yet another synonym for “the bad guys”, has been instrumental in allowing actual fascism to rise again unchecked.
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
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
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
“Tankie” is a generalist term, the same as “leftist” and whatnot. The goal of terms like these is to put people into camps that are divided and label them as anything other than “human” because it’s a lot easier to say “100 dead tankies” than it is to say “100 dead humans”
My point is that terms like this detract from communication because they obfuscate the meaning behind what is being said. Using these terms, even if it is to fight against propaganda, makes it easier to continue using other terms that are similar in nature. This encourages people to use less people-centric language, which dehumanizes those around them and makes them easier targets. Best to just avoid using them at all IMO
Actually the goal of terms like that is efficiency. We could say “supporter of aggressively implemented authoritarian communism” if we wanted, but tankie is shorter.
Helps if you have the background to understand the specifics of what different “isms” support and thus what they disagree on that leads them into genuinely fighting each other. A fascist, a lib and a tankie really do have very core disagreements that cannot be realistically compromised on. At the most basic, a fascist wants a unified society with a strict hierarchy, the tankie wants a unified society with no hierarchy, the lib doesn’t want any kind of unified society. If any one of these people gets their way, the other two do not, which leads to conflict.
Left/right are more economic arguments with some wiggle room due to being more or less a spectrum, but also tend to feature significant real world disagreements.
Anyways, I do agree that it’s important to have conversations about these underlying details, but when you’re talking amongst other people who know the background already, some shorthand terms are going to start appearing. Since these are overarching governance philosophies that any person can adopt or discard at will, they’re also a little different from more inherent divisions, like ethnicity for instance. Being a tankie, lib or fascist is a choice, where being Arabic or gay or something is not.
Choose the most efficient phrase from these options:
Notice how the message still gets across with that third one? It still tells you “these are lies or exaggerations that have misled you” without needlessly classing the source with a catch-all term that obfuscates their position as human beings with the right to live?
Nothing about the term tankie does or should deny their right to live. Advocating for the deaths of people who disagree with you is profoundly against everything liberalism (the freedom-based guiding principle of what we’d call “the west”) stands for.
To the contrary, as a pretty standard liberal American I fully support their rights to advocate for whatever they wish. Since there is no realistic way to accurately and objectively determine what is or is not propaganda, I support their right to create that as well.
Regarding the utility of recognizing where propaganda comes from, it can occasionally be useful to know, as it tends to follow certain patterns based on the goals of whoever created it.
Can you realistically accurately and objectively determine that the source of the claim was a tankie?
So it makes more sense to make wild claims about the person behind the message than it does to classify a piece of information based off of its linguistic characteristics?
Also, identifying propaganda isn’t difficult, I had to do it for classes in school several times. Here’s a helpful reminder on how to do so.
how you recognize propaganda is that everything is propaganda. your comment, this comment, the original article, the concept that russia remains communist, it’s all propaganda. the key isn’t learning to recognize propaganda, it’s learning to analyze the biases of who’s presenting the propaganda.
here, i’ll tell you my biases. i’m an anarcho communist located in the united states. there. now that you have that intel, you can start to assess what kinds of propaganda you’d expect to see from me. more, when i don’t put out the kinds of propaganda you expect, you can question the following:
the kinds of classes we receive on how propaganda works in elementary and high school are meant to get us to rigidly stick to the status quo that benefits the authoritarian rulers of society. they are, themselves, propaganda. in fact, this notion you have that we can talk about propaganda without context i actually find a little bit dangerous. by stripping context and discussion of origins of propaganda, we actually create the exact form of non critical environment that benefits the misinformation peddlar.
then again, you don’t have to find my perspective compelling. that’s why i told you up front what it was, as well as what my propaganda is.
I don’t believe that you can speak about propaganda without context, and I didn’t claim that either. The “efficient phrases” thing is part of a puzzle, not the whole puzzle. What I do believe is that terms like “tankie” fill the same role “Jew” or “Gay” fill for the right. It’s a term used to change the perception of the speaker from “person/human being” to “undesirable with a bad opinion”
You very well might be able to, actually, though I’m not going to guarantee it. Regardless though, if the line is commonly parroted by a certain group, then the claims are not particularly wild, are they?
And yes, there are lots of very useful tips that can identify most propaganda based off of common traits. This is not foolproof though. Still very good to know, though.
It’s also US propaganda to discredit communism
???
It absolutely fucking is not. It’s origin is clueless libs whos only knowledge of the subject dates back to the cold war.
Lol. Must knowledgeable liberal.
Imagine replying to the same person 3 times to say the same thing, and all 3 of them were idiotic because you misread their first comment.
I said “claims to be” not “are” and then further clarified that I was saying that the most recent time I had looked into it I found multiple sources saying they stilled claimed to be communist. I knew they weren’t actually communist, I always did. Because of course I knew about the fall of the Soviet Union. I just didn’t bother to pay attention to the actual internal structure of Russia because it didn’t apply to my life in any way
They don’t though. They don’t now, they didn’t in 2018, and anyone with even the most cursory knowledge on the subject could tell you that.
What is it with westerners arrogantly giving their opinion on things they clearly don’t know the first thing about?
Okay, let’s break down a few things here. I said
I then recognized that I was affected by propaganda and changed my tune. Then, several hours after I had already realized my mistake and changed my behavior, you came and started verbally abusing me for having misspoken in the first place due to my lack of knowledge. Again, I’ve already been educated and changed my behavior.
What value do you believe that your comments brought by being abusive after someone had already recognized their biases and changed them? Do you believe you are helping to further change my beliefs or do you feel like you might just be pushing a wedge between two people who actually agree for no reason?
The value is that maybe in the future you will think twice before popping off about subjects you literally don’t know the first thing about. Just to be clear, thinking that Russia still claims to be communist in 2018 is like thinking Germany still claims to be fascist or France still claims to be a monarchy. There’s nothing wrong with being ignorant, so long as you’re humble about it.
I was humble about it. I publicly admitted that I was a victim of propaganda and adjusted the way I acted going forward.
You’re right that I probably could have put a other moment of thought into it before hitting post and I probably would have googled it and then changed it. Which is exactly what someone else has already pointed out to me and I’ve already done. So you’re repeating them, and bringing no value to the conversation.
Humble would have been not asserting it in the first place.
You weren’t “a victim of propaganda”, my god, have some humility. What you were was ignorant.
I didn’t assert it. In fact, I very intentionally used passive language to avoid asserting it as a truth. I said “I think there are… That claim to be”
I didn’t say “Russia claims to be communist” or the likes.
I specifically phrased it that way to communicate that that was my understanding and not necessarily the truth. Then, someone told me my understanding was wrong and I corrected it. Then you came along, doing whatever this is.
Yes, and that’s the arrogance that I was talking out; thinking that your completely baseless thoughts are worth sharing.
From what I can tell, your understanding is still wrong, given this “I was a victim of propaganda” talk.
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.
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
Neither claim to be communists.
Jesus Christ, the willingness of westerners to make statements about things they are completely ignorant of is astounding.
Is there a instance for Greenland or is it covered by the danish instance?
It is covered under Denmark as they’re still part of the realm. But they have their constitution written ready for the day of independence.
Yeap, I’m aware of the Denmark and Greenland situation but I was curious if Greenland had their own instance
It’ll soon be covered by the US instances if the Danish army can’t see off the Yanks.
Greenland’s got their Lemmy instance in the drawer under the constitution. Ready to be unveiled to the world!
A bit like the secret Greenland Army hiding under the ice until the day they are needed.
Wow, Africa's Fediverse game is weak.
There is only one Lemmy instance hosted in the entirety of Africa and it’s called Faithlemmy.online in South Africa.
Baraza.Africa is ironically hosted in the Netherlands.
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!
The north and south will make contradictory statements about it and the federal decision will be somewhere in between
Just in case, there is also the french version of !belgique@jlai.lu :)
Same, I’ve had to surf along with The Neighbours to find something close by and stable…
Lemmy.world is also hosted in the Netherlands IIRC, I’m just proxying through the UK.
Me from the only Lemmy instance in South Korea:
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.
Huh, that exists? I thought no one in SK would care enough to host a lemmy instance.
I care enough to host one
lemmy.cat and lemmy.eus for Catalunya and Basque Country
Still would like to see a Spanish instance emerge
Existed and died
Just like Feddit.ch QQ
Oh I know, I was on both eslemmy.es and lemuria.es
Poor Blaze has seen things 🫂
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Guten Tag
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Ich bin MrNemobody.
i can see my instance from here
Oh no I coloured in Ireland 🤦♀️
Isn’t there a lemmy instance for Ireland as well?
I was just going to ask what the Irish instance was. I’d correct that asap as they can get awfully feisty when riled. I’ve got ¾ Irish ancestry, so it’s not racist.
Ukraine has an instance: feddit.kyiv.ua
Jlai.lu is more a francophone than strictly French instance, even if as far as I know most admins are French.
Kinda proud for our Turkish fellows keeping that instance running ✌️
The middle east is completely gray 🥲 (except Turkey but that instance is dead, I’m not even Turkish)
Would lemm.ee count for Estonia?
Do you know where it is hosted?
Estonia
Oh nice thats definitely makes it unique around here! Go Estonia the next nordic country!
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!
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 🤭
We’re taking a free ride on the Finns. !norway@sopuli.xyz
Those electric cars aren’t going to pay for themselves!
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 ;)
Actually in Spain there are a Catalan and a Basque instances. Go represent this on your map :)
Can you please share what they are
Someone else already did here: lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/16916945
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 forocoches.com/foro/forumdisplay.php?f=2 & 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
lemuria.es still seems to be running a Lemmy instance, so there is hope. 🤞
Well technically Lemmygrad.ml is hosted in Norway. But then you would have to deal with tankies.
Which country is Block Island south of Hawaii?
I’m pretty sure that’s French Polynesia
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?
www.elotrolado.net/foro_off-topic_58 maybe?
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
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 mujico.org and I think there was one for one other SA country.
Nah rekabu.ru is definitely hosted in Moscow.
There it is the Russian instance.
I’ve already blocked most of these because they all use Wingdings font
¡Siempre hay un chileno!
(Curiosamente no tengo cuenta en la instancia de Chile. Debería arreglar eso.)
La cantidad de latinos es muy baja u.u
Sí, falta más gente
La cantidad de latinos es muy baja u.u
Feddit.dk in the house 👋
@sortekanin@feddit.dk.
Hello from lemmy.today!
Howdy boss
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
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.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..
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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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.
Don’t bother, he’s a pro-china anti-western shill, his comment history is a mess
ml represents all dictatorships…
Dictatorship of the proletariat, sure. But not for long IMO.
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.
Lemmy.eco.br representative here
Olá!!
No Greece? Also no India, Indonesia and Japan? Damn that’s unexpected.
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.
!Greece is an Mbin community with the most threads in all of Mbin. Even more than mine!
Thanks!
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.
lm.korako.me is a Japanese Lemmy instance run by @karasu_sue . It's small, but it counts!
I'd love to see a revised map with all these ones from the comments added in.
(This was translated using ChatGPT.)
Thank you for mentioning our server.
In Japan, there is no culture similar to Reddit in the first place, so Lemmy has not been widely accepted, and there are very few users. I tried promoting it before, but it had no effect. Similarly, Mastodon groups are rarely used except for a few cases. Even if you come across Japanese users elsewhere, most of them can speak English and have used Reddit in the past.
Moreover, as is the case for me, most Japanese people do not understand any language other than Japanese—not even English. Because of this, even if they connect with other global servers, they cannot communicate due to language and cultural differences, which I believe has led to this situation.
Is misskey popular there? They are planning on federating channels (groups) which could make them join able on lemmy.
Misskey is, of course, very popular since it was developed by a Japanese person. I myself run a Misskey server.
Sorry, but I couldn’t find any information about plans for Misskey channels to federate with groups. Misskey’s developer is not very proactive about federation, so if this is true, that would be great to hear!
I thought I saw it in the issues.
Just a small note: lm.korako.me has effectively stopped accepting new registrations.
Because of that, it was probably left out of the list this time.
I briefly explained the situation in the following post, so if you’re interested, please check it out: lm.korako.me/post/115527
I’d love to get down to the city level, even
.
legitimate.
I live right next to this hetzer box!
Get out of the house, then.
Oh rofl
Mastodon is getting to that point.
I’m giving this a thumbs up xD
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.
That’s what I thought. I don’t know if any big ones are hosted in the US.
discuss.online
The server is in Finland, actually. I am in The Netherlands, so is the non-profit foundation owning LW.
LW is European
My bad, I thought it was American due to the amount of shitty neo-liberalss on the instance. It could as well be
Thats german iirc.
midwest.social is sorta the defacto US-specific instance despite the name pointing to a specific region.
Ah, that makes sense from the name.
But isnt it not hosted in the US?
Midwest US reporting in!
Sometimes it feels like .world is
discuss.online
lemmyusa.com
Quite surprised to see Ukraine doesn’t have its own instance
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.
Feddit.ro exists, i think
I swear Mujico (Mexico) was around for a bit. I wonder if it’s still up.
Edit: It’s still alive and kicking! mujico.org
Seguimos vivos, pero casi que fuera de la federación jaja, nos votaron por nuestros chistes pasados de lanza. Saludos.
Por qué no sale Mujico!? Claramente esto tiene que ser un error!
mujico.org/post/338143/173905
Ah… bueno… por eso…
Ahh pinche raza xd
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
That’s really unfortunate 😭
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.
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.
This is why I’m on a German one as a Brit. /s
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!
I don’t know from experience, but I’ve seen mentions of it taking serious work, including dealing with CP content being uploaded (federated?) to random instances…
I’m fairly certain AI tools exist to aid in scanning for child pornography. I haven’t looked into it at all though so I dont know its efficacy.
Images don’t federate. They could be cached on a remote instance.
Setting up is easy, but keeping it up to date is often troublesome. Releases are far and few between and as such, whenever there is one, it includes a lot of changes. That leads to some instances having trouble pretty much every time; I’ve been on the unlucky side enough times to be wary.
Lemmy.cafe runs on 2 dual vcore 4gb ram VMs on digitalocean - one for db, another for lemmy itself.
Lemmy prides itself in being written in rust, but it leaks memory like a sieve - I’ve had split up the containers into smaller tasks (there’s an official flag you can pass to it), double them up and set memory limits. That way when something gets killed by the kernel it’s not really noticable to the end user.
Running a public instance of anything is a security concern, let alone alpha-beta software like lemmy. If you do run it on your homelab at home - at least get the cheapest vm in the cloud to hide your home IPs. You’d probably need to set up a wireguard tunnel to ensure outgoing federation does not reveal the IPs to other instances.
Instance level moderation is up to you. Don’t be too dreamy - nobody will join your instance just because you have it running. Other than spammers and voting bots, that is. Moderation tools are just not there, so you’ll have to fiddle in the db directly.
Having said all that - if all you want is a personal inatance - go for it! With sign ups disabled it’s a much less stressful experience!
Thank you for your insight!
I want one for my country, and I want to validate that users are in fact people from my country. Once inside, they can do pretty much whatever they want. We aren’t going to be a lot of people at the start for sure. What would you recommend me?
If you’re dead set to run lemmy - then just do it! If soam becomes a problem - turn on registration verification. Spam usually comes in waves, so you don’t even have to keep that barrier on all the time. Having said that - if you want some sort of nationality verification - application process could enable it.
If you’re not set on lemmy - give piefed a shot. That’s what I would run if I were setting up from scratch. Same format social media, but, at least from what I’m hearing - better software.
I wasn’t aware of piefed, looks like it federates with Lemmy just fine. Maybe I grab a generalist fediverse domain for my country and have sub domains for lemmy, piefed, mastodon, and see what resonates more in my country.
If you don’t want to spend too much time with moderation, you will have to manually approve registrations, simply to avoid spam. Sure, that increases the workload slightly, as you’re gonna have to go through applications let’s say once a week, but you don’t have to monitor the instance 24/7. I would still recommend checking reports once in a while, just to be on the safe side. But definitely make sure to deploy @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com’s fedi-safety to prevent CSAM from being uploaded on your instance.
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If you have the technical know-how it isn’t too bad. Equally, moderation and accepting accounts shouldn’t be too much hassle. There are other Admins and devs on Matrix who will lend advice if you need it.
What you need to do is to invest a bit of time into planning to make the instance sustainable, especially as you are planning on running an instance for your country.
I say, go for it and if you need any help then there are a lot of people around who are more than happy to do what they can.
This is encouraging, I’ll probably go and do it. Thanks for the insight.
Let us know how it goes and drop me a line on Matrix and I’ll invite you to relevant groups. There is plenty of help there.
I helped take over the running of feddit.uk after the Admin went AWOL, so the situation is a bit different, but the lessons we learned are largely transferable to your case. So getting it up.ans running should be the easy bit, ensuring it can keep running is where all the planning and hard work comes in.
Thanks, I’ll start trying to set up pie fed as others suggested here, and see where that leads.
Good luck.
Cool map.
I was expecting a list.
Ireland has an instance?
I too also want to know what the Irish instance is.
There isn’t one yet as I made a mistake. We need someone to create feddit.ie.
fedd.ie
I’m in the process of setting one up for Iceland, feddit.is. Mostly there, just some final touches.
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’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.
Looks like I will have to make an updated post with more detail after hearing all the feedback!
Thanks for doing that! It’d be helpful to have it in list form too, so we can help point people to instances based on location should they be interested:)
I’m more interested in distribution of users and local-focus of communities than country-based instances, nevertheless the map does illustrate that Lemmy has huge gaps - no country instance in all of Africa, hardly any in Asia… What can we do to make it a more global conversation ?
Fediverse promotion in some part in third world country (including mine) is hard.
Most people just want free and easy access to the web with their existing account
Don’t a lot of places also have limited data plans, but unlimited data for using Meta and other big tech platforms? That’s still a thing right?
all the shitty ISP’s in most of the African countries make deals with Meta to steal and sell all your data
As far as I know, those stuff only available in African countries and India. Not Indonesia.
where’s Mali?
Are you talking about Lemmy.ml?
there it is! good ole instance of the people of Mali. at least i hope so. it would be pretty colonial for westerners to use their country code…
They could use feddit.ml as a workaround.
There used to be Lemmy Indonesia as well. Just like almost all Indonesian fediverse instance, all of them are dead (except Misskey and that new Mastodon instance barren of any user).
What was the Indonesian one called? 🇮🇩
Lemmy.id For other active fedi instance: fedi.my.id (Mastodon), Misskey.id (mostly tech and ACG culture)
If there are so many, why do I only see Feddit.de when I browse All?
Feddit.org. Feddit.de has been dead for months
What’s the French one?
https://jlai.lu/
What is the Portugal one?
lemmy.pt
not aware of turkish instance. what is it?
lemmy.com.tr
you could categorize lemm.ee but it’s a general instance so not really
Damn Sunshine, you’ve been popping off on content. Formally, thank you 🙏
Did you mean…
I found just one Japanese instance. It is unfortunate that Lemmy is not well-known in Japan.
lm.korako.me
Russia and China not filled in
Lol
Hey, where’s Norway? And Iceland?
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.
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.
Bangladesh has one busdyverse.one by ml
you know any other ones?
It’s the only one I saw
Tbh, I’d prefer a list.
Here are the European ones (partly nicked from @Blaze@feddit.org’s list on Reddit:
Others that have come up in the discussion here OT elsewhere:
Defunct:
Hungary: fost.huIndonesia:lemmy.idJapan: feddit.jpRomania: feddit.roSpain: eslemmy.es or lemuria.esSwitzerland: feddit.chUkraine: feddit.kyiv.ualemuria.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: buddyverse.one
@Blaze@feddit.org @Sunshine@lemmy.ca did I miss any?
Your list is pretty comprehensive!
You could add:
lemmy.world to 🇳🇱
Maybe 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.
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