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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!

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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

[–] noahimesaka1873@lemmy.funami.tech 116 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Me from the only Lemmy instance in South Korea:

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 38 points 1 week ago

I never knew one existed there 😯

[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] ZonenRanslite@feddit.org 75 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 51 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Ludrol@szmer.info 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] sudneo@lemm.ee 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I am actually surprised they got that on the first place. That's a very major domain name to have...

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It looks like the major city names (and maybe others) are registered by the government and allow people to register subdomains.

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[–] kernelle@0d.gs 43 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 44 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Looks like we’re going to use your instance as a neutral meeting place for all the EU instance admins.

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 39 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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?"

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[–] legolas@fedit.pl 37 points 1 week ago (16 children)

Strange that Spain and Norway don't have its own instance. Big countries

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 2 points 5 days ago

https://lemuria.es/ still seems to be running a Lemmy instance, so there is hope. 🤞

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 20 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Norway only has a population of 5.5million. The area is relativly big though.

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[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (9 children)

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.

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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

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

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

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?

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[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lemmy.eco.br representative here

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[–] mapto@feddit.bg 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] GreenSofaBed@feddit.is 25 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I'm in the process of setting one up for Iceland, feddit.is. Mostly there, just some final touches.

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[–] lena@gregtech.eu 25 points 1 week ago

My instance is Slovenian, you can add it to the list

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 week ago (4 children)

https://lemmy.cat/ and https://lemmy.eus/ for Catalunya and Basque Country

Still would like to see a Spanish instance emerge

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[–] letraset@feddit.dk 24 points 1 week ago

Feddit.dk in the house 👋

@sortekanin@feddit.dk.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

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/

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[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Ironic how this doesn’t include communist countries.

[–] blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io 24 points 1 week ago (31 children)
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