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!
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
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 hop into a hot spring some time!
Thanks! Set the Icelandic blue color as the primary color, think it looks pretty nice.
Works well.
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.
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.
I found just one Japanese instance. It is unfortunate that Lemmy is not well-known in Japan.
Tbh, I’d prefer a list.
Here are the European ones (partly nicked from @Blaze@feddit.org’s list on Reddit:
- Basque Country: https://lemmy.eus/
- 🇧🇬 Bulgaria: https://feddit.bg/
- Catalonia: https://lemmy.cat/
- 🇩🇰 Denmark, including Greenland (for now): https://feddit.dk/
- 🇫🇷🇧🇪🇨🇭 France, Belgium, Switzerland: https://jlai.lu/
- 🇩🇪🇦🇹🇨🇭🇱🇮 Germany, Austria and Switzerland: https://feddit.org/
- 🇫🇮 Finland: https://sopuli.xyz/ and https://suppo.fi/
- 🇮🇸 Iceland: https://feddit.is/
- 🇮🇹 Italy: https://feddit.it/
- 🇳🇱 Netherlands: https://feddit.nl/ and https://lemy.nl/
- 🇵🇱 Poland: https://fedit.pl/ and https://szmer.info/
- 🇵🇹 Portugal: https://lemmy.pt/
- 🇸🇪 Sweden: https://feddit.nu/
- 🇹🇷 Turkey: https://lemmy.com.tr/
- 🇬🇧 UK: https://feddit.uk/
Others that have come up in the discussion here OT elsewhere:
- 🇦🇺 Australia: https://aussie.zone/
- 🇧🇩 Bangladesh: https://buddyverse.one/
- 🇧🇪 Belgium: https://0d.gs/
- 🇧🇷 Brazil: http://lemmy.eco.br/
- 🇨🇦 Canada: https://lemmy.ca/ and https://sh.itjust.works/
- 🇨🇱 Chile: https://feddit.cl/
- 🇱🇹 Lithuania: https://group.lt/
- 🇱🇺 Luxembourg: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/
- 🇲🇾 Malaysia: https://monyet.cc/
- 🇲🇽 Mexico: https://mujico.org/
- 🇳🇿 New Zealand: https://lemmy.nz/
- 🇯🇵 Japan: https://lm.korako.me/
- 🇸🇮 Slovenia: https://gregtech.eu/
- 🇰🇷 South Korea: https://lemmy.funami.tech/
- 🇺🇸 USA: https://lemmyusa.com/ and https://discuss.online/, also for the Midwest: https://midwest.social/
Defunct:
- 🇭🇺
Hungary: https://fost.hu/ - 🇮🇩
Indonesia:https://lemmy.id/ - 🇯🇵
Japan: https://feddit.jp/ - 🇷🇴
Romania: https://feddit.ro/ - 🇪🇸
Spain: http://eslemmy.es/ or https://lemuria.es/ - 🇨🇭
Switzerland: https://feddit.ch/ - 🇺🇦
Ukraine: https://feddit.kyiv.ua/
need a bangladeshi instance
Got it: https://buddyverse.one/
https://lemuria.es/ still has a Lemmy instance running, if any Spaniards are enthusatic, they could try emailing the @admin, @contact, etc addresses and see if the owner will transfer it over to you. I’m sure we can rummage up enough help to get it back up and running if you get control.
- 🇭🇺
@Blaze@feddit.org @Sunshine@lemmy.ca did I miss any?
Your list is pretty comprehensive!
You could add:
https://lemmy.world/ to 🇳🇱
Maybe https://slrpnk.net/ to 🇵🇹 as that’s where they’re hosted.
Also you can add the Lechestein flag 🇱🇮to Feddit.org as they’re German speaking.
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 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
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
Bangladesh has one busdyverse.one by ml
you know any other ones?
It’s the only one I saw
What is the Portugal one?
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)
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.
But isnt it not hosted in the US?
Midwest US reporting in!
Ah, that makes sense from the name.
Lemmy.world
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
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.
Thats german iirc.
Hey, where’s Norway? And Iceland?
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!
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?
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.
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.
Thank you for your insight!
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.
- 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.
This is encouraging, I’ll probably go and do it. Thanks for the insight.
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.
Thanks, I’ll start trying to set up pie fed as others suggested here, and see where that leads.
Good luck.
I would also like to know this!
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:)
