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
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.
Guten Tag
aber dieses Mal mache ich eine Ausnahme. ♥️Ich bin MrNemobody.
I found just one Japanese instance. It is unfortunate that Lemmy is not well-known in Japan.
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
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/
Seguimos vivos, pero casi que fuera de la federación jaja, nos votaron por nuestros chistes pasados de lanza. Saludos.
Parece que el Destino de Mujico es ser una especie de Bluesky en menor escala y con su propio estilo
Por qué no sale Mujico!? Claramente esto tiene que ser un error!
https://mujico.org/post/338143/173905
Ah… bueno… por eso…
Ahh pinche raza xd
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.
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 🤣
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:)
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.
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)
What is the Portugal one?
Strange that Spain and Norway don’t have its own instance. Big countries
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.
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: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/16916945
Norway easily has the money to spare for an Lemmy instance. Where’s our feddit.no!
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!
They’re probably busy spending it on surströmming
No… nobody is eating that except for the sweeds
https://lemuria.es/ still seems to be running a Lemmy instance, so there is hope. 🤞
Spain idk but an autonomous region of spain does hace one, lemmy.eus
Well technically Lemmygrad.ml is hosted in Norway. But then you would have to deal with tankies.
Ireland has an instance?
There isn’t one yet as I made a mistake. We need someone to create feddit.ie.
I too also want to know what the Irish instance is.
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/
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@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.
