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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Which country is Block Island south of Hawaii?
I’m pretty sure that’s French Polynesia
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.
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.
There was a spanish Lemmy instance eslemmy.es or something similar, but apparently it’s been down for months
Bangladesh has one busdyverse.one by ml
you know any other ones?
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 hoop into a hot spring some time!
Thanks! Set the Icelandic blue color as the primary color, think it looks pretty nice.
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.
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.
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/
Por qué no sale Mujico!? Claramente esto tiene que ser un error!
https://mujico.org/post/338143/173905
Ah… bueno… por eso…
Seguimos vivos, pero casi que fuera de la federación jaja, nos votaron por nuestros chistes pasados de lanza. Saludos.
Ironic how this doesn’t include communist countries.
Do any exist?
I think there’s like 12 countries that still claim to be communist. Cuba, China and Russia off the top of my head and there’s a handful of island nations that are doing quite well with it
Neither claim to be communists.
Russia
Jesus Christ, the willingness of westerners to make statements about things they are completely ignorant of is astounding.
russia decidedly does not continue to claim to be communist. putin’s parties have all been various forms of anti-comm far right nationalist parties. the idea that russia is still a champion of communism worldwide is some weapons grade tankie copium
And tankies actually think China is communist.
nope. nobody think China is communist. Not even the Chinese. This shows you don’t know shit about it.
Oh man I made the mistake of saying the word Russia and now I must be evil. You’re right, they’re not technically communist and after double checking yeah they don’t claim it anymore either. Last time I really cared about Russia’s internals was quite a while ago, and despite few changes to their economic system they definitely used to at least claim to be communist. Or that was my understanding at the time.
The point still stands, a handful of countries claim to be communist. A handful of countries are communist. Whether that’s a good or bad thing is up to you to decide
Mate, if you’re so fucking ignorant on the subject that you’ve never heard of the collapse of the Soviet union, you should not be commenting on it.
i don’t think you’re evil. i just think it’s fascinating how pervasive “russia is still communist” is as a talking point when it’s decidedly not
I remember googling “which countries are still communist” back around 2018ish and Russia being at the top of many lists. It’s just another ripple effect from propaganda that hasn’t died out yet.
That being said, fighting propaganda is much easier with gentler words instead of name-calling in my experience
Lol. Must knowledgeable liberal.
where did i name call? i was just pointing out that it’s some tankie propaganda. i think your post was overall fine. ohhhh, wait did you think i was calling you a tankie? shit, i didn’t mean that, i just meant the propaganda was tankist in origin
Zero “tankies” think Russia is communist; it’s a belief held entirely by ignorant western liberals like justanotherkay
How? Even though Lemmy has lots of commies, it has nothing inherently to do with communism.
The whole federative idea is communism
All communist countries used the communism idea to trick their people into a fascist government.
That’s true, but it doesn’t mean truly communist ideas don’t exist. Both the Fediverse and Free Software, as concepts, are pretty darn “from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs” if you think about it, ya know?
All fascists have always used leftist promises to gain support. That talk has never matched their actions. Some people learn to not trust lying, many don’t.
Bad actors don’t usually go telling it outright, it needs to be masked with something people need, without delivering.
Quite surprised to see Ukraine doesn’t have its own instance
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
Poor Blaze has seen things 🫂
Just like Feddit.ch QQ
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 :)
Looks like we’re going to use your instance as a neutral meeting place for all the EU instance admins.
A long held tradition by my countrymen! Rejoice!
until we all start a major global conflict by invading you. also tradition
Preposterous, I will discuss this with my 18 political parties and come back to you within 200 days.
The north and south will make contradictory statements about it and the federal decision will be somewhere in between
The alliance needs to respond quickly to this threat!
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.
What’s the US one?
Lemmy.world
Oh, I thought their server was located in a different country. It’s a bad idea to have a server in a location that the US government has authority over.
Lemmy.world is hosted in the Netherlands, if I’m not mistaken.
The server is in Finland, actually. I am in The Netherlands, so is the non-profit foundation owning LW.
That’s what I thought. I don’t know if any big ones are hosted in the US.
LW is European
My bad, I thought it was American due to the amount of shitty neo-liberalss on the instance. It could as well be
midwest.social is sorta the defacto US-specific instance despite the name pointing to a specific region.
Ah, that makes sense from the name.
Midwest US reporting in!
But isnt it not hosted in the US?
Sometimes it feels like .world is
Kinda proud for our Turkish fellows keeping that instance running ✌️
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 easily has the money to spare for an Lemmy instance. Where’s our feddit.no!
They’re probably busy spending it on surströmming
No… nobody is eating that except for the sweeds
We’re taking a free ride on the Finns. !norway@sopuli.xyz
Those electric cars aren’t going to pay for themselves!
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 🤭
Spain idk but an autonomous region of spain does hace one, lemmy.eus
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
Well technically Lemmygrad.ml is hosted in Norway. But then you would have to deal with tankies.
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 ;)
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:)
