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!

  • Captain Aggravated
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    152 hours ago

    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?”

  • HEXN3T
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    22 hours ago

    Quite surprised to see Ukraine doesn’t have its own instance

  • Lena
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    216 hours ago

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

  • @JubilantJaguar
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    236 hours ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      35 hours ago

      Well I guess this is only the domain and their server us hosted elsewhere. But good point.

      • @JubilantJaguar
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        11 hour ago

        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.

      • @JubilantJaguar
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        42 hours ago

        Mentioning the French troops was a bit offtopic. But my point stands. Mali is a semi-failed state that seems to have exchanged one set of foreign lords for another, much worse, set.

        • Waryle
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          42 hours ago

          Don’t bother, he’s a pro-china anti-western shill, his comment history is a mess

          • @JubilantJaguar
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            22 hours ago

            Firstly, the French troops were invited by Mali’s government to help it put down its jihadist insurgents. The Russian ones were invited, in turn, for the same reason, after a media-propaganda campaign by Russia that played on historic animosity dating from the colonial period. A propaganda campaign filled with angry rhetoric and sounding much like your rant.

            Meanwhile, Mali is still a semi-failed state with a jihadi problem which was caused by neither France nor Russia. And on top of that it now has brutal boorish Russian mercenaries instead of generally well-behaved French regular soldiers. Mali got a terrible deal and it was their own fault.

            You know why I’m not embarrassed to say that? Precisely because I’m not a colonialist. I believe that Mali is not a child, it’s an adult. It has agency, it’s not a colony of anyone, it’s a sovereign country that can make choices for itself. If anyone’s views here are colonialist, it’s yours.

      • @[email protected]
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        52 hours 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.

  • Krik
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    96 hours ago

    No Greece? Also no India, Indonesia and Japan? Damn that’s unexpected.

    • @Trail
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      32 hours 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.

  • stebo
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    167 hours ago

    Hello I live in the little gap there that is Belgium

    • fxomt
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      1510 hours ago

      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 (she/her)OP
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        1210 hours ago

        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.

        • fxomt
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          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.

  • @grue
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    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?

    • @[email protected]
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      46 hours ago

      Actually in Spain there are a Catalan and a Basque instances. Go represent this on your map :)

      • @perfectly_boiled_pizza
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        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.

        • @brealorg
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          57 hours ago

          No… nobody is eating that except for the sweeds

        • lime!
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          18 hours ago

          don’t let the norwegians hear you say that. it’s brunost.