Every Country That Has Their Own Lemmy Instance
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!
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:
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.
I found just one Japanese instance. It is unfortunate that Lemmy is not well-known in Japan.
Bangladesh has one busdyverse.one by ml
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.
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.
Huh, that exists? I thought no one in SK would care enough to host a lemmy instance.
I care enough to host one
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
Ich bin MrNemobody.
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.
Hey, where's Norway? And Iceland?
What is the Portugal one?
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.
Ukraine has an instance: https://feddit.kyiv.ua/
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.
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
Russia and China not filled in
Lol
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)
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.
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.
Just in case, there is also the french version of !belgique@jlai.lu :)
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 ly domains (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.
ml represents all dictatorships...
Dictatorship of the proletariat, sure. But not for long IMO.
Strange that Spain and Norway don't have its own instance. Big countries
https://lemuria.es/ still seems to be running a Lemmy instance, so there is hope. 🤞
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.
Norway easily has the money to spare for an Lemmy instance. Where's our feddit.no!
We're taking a free ride on the Finns. !norway@sopuli.xyz
Spain idk but an autonomous region of spain does hace one, lemmy.eus
My instance is Slovenian, you can add it to the list
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:)
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.
Damn Sunshine, you've been popping off on content. Formally, thank you 🙏
not aware of turkish instance. what is it?
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?
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.
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.
There was a spanish Lemmy instance eslemmy.es or something similar, but apparently it's been down for months
Lemmy.eco.br representative here
Olá!!
Feddit.dk in the house 👋
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?
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!
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.
Ty
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...
Images don't federate. They could be cached on a remote instance.
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.
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.
I would also like to know this!
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 😁
Damn, I thought dbzer0 was greek. Cheers eitherway.
I am personally Greek, but I'm based in Luxembourg.
Hello I live in the little gap there that is Belgium
Just a speedbump for the german fediverse army
In America we just call that French Germany
excuse me, we are also Dutch Germany
https://lemmy.cat/ and https://lemmy.eus/ for Catalunya and Basque Country
Still would like to see a Spanish instance emerge
Existed and died
Oh I know, I was on both eslemmy.es and lemuria.es
Just like Feddit.ch QQ
What's the French one?
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
What's the US one?
Sometimes it feels like .world is
midwest.social is sorta the defacto US-specific instance despite the name pointing to a specific region.
Midwest US reporting in!
But isnt it not hosted in the US?
Ah, that makes sense from the name.
Ironic how this doesn’t include communist countries.
Cool map.
I was expecting a list.
Hey. Cant believe my country is in there. Never knew that. Wonder what is the instance name.
where's Mali?
Are you talking about Lemmy.ml?
Jlai.lu is more a francophone than strictly French instance, even if as far as I know most admins are French.
¡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
Quite surprised to see Ukraine doesn't have its own instance
Nah https://rekabu.ru/ is definitely hosted in Moscow.
There it is the Russian instance.
No Greece? Also no India, Indonesia and Japan? Damn that's unexpected.
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.
(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.
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.
you could categorize lemm.ee but it's a general instance so not really
Would lemm.ee count for Estonia?
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.
Kinda proud for our Turkish fellows keeping that instance running ✌️
Did you mean…
the country club?
Feddit.ro exists, i think
Hello from lemmy.today!
Howdy boss
Which country is Block Island south of Hawaii?
I’m pretty sure that’s French Polynesia
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
I'd love to get down to the city level, even
Mastodon is getting to that point.
If I ran an instance I wouldn’t want any of y’all knowing where I fucking live lol
I live right next to this hetzer box!
legitimate.
Get out of the house, then.
Oh rofl
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