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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
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
I found just one Japanese instance. It is unfortunate that Lemmy is not well-known in Japan.
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:
I'm based in Luxembourg, and so is Haidra. Therefore I think we have that covered, even if we're not specifically country-based.
Strange that Spain and Norway don't have its own instance. Big countries
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.
Bangladesh has one busdyverse.one by ml
you know any other ones?
It's the only one I saw
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'd love to get down to the city level, even