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!

    • Trail@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      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.

    • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      2 months ago

      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.

    • hitstun@fedia.io
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      2 months ago

      lm.korako.me is a Japanese Lemmy instance run by @karasu_sue@lm.korako.me . It’s small, but it counts!

      I’d love to see a revised map with all these ones from the comments added in.

      • 鴉河雛@Lemmy@lm.korako.meEnglish
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        2 months ago

        (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.

          • 鴉河雛@Lemmy@lm.korako.meEnglish
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            2 months ago

            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!

  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I’m based in Luxembourg, and so is Haidra. Therefore I think we have that covered, even if we’re not specifically country-based.

  • rotmulaaginskyrim@programming.devEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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

      • mapto@feddit.bgEnglish
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        2 months ago

        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.

  • Hossenfeffer@feddit.ukEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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.

  • josefo@leminal.spaceEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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?

    • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 months ago

      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.

    • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukEnglish
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      2 months ago

      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.

      • Get at least one more Admin onboard, so there is some redundancy.
      • Accept donations - Open Collective is very good for this as you you can use a fiscal host who will hold the money for you. When you hit a critical mass the donations should cover expenses and scale well as your user numbers grow.
      • Plan contingencies for if you are too busy to oversee the site or you don’t want to do it any more, don’t just drop off the radar.

      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.

        • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukEnglish
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          2 months ago

          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.

          • josefo@leminal.spaceEnglish
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            2 months ago

            Thanks, I’ll start trying to set up pie fed as others suggested here, and see where that leads.

    • Illecors@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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      2 months ago

      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!

      • josefo@leminal.spaceEnglish
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        2 months ago

        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?

        • Illecors@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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          2 months ago

          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.

          • josefo@leminal.spaceEnglish
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            2 months ago

            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.

    • KubeRoot@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      2 months ago

      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…

  • GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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.