Every Country That Has Their Own Lemmy Instance
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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.
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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.
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lm.korako.me is a Japanese Lemmy instance run by @[email protected] . 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.
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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.
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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. [email protected]
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We're taking a free ride on the Finns. [email protected]
Those electric cars aren’t going to pay for themselves!
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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!
This is where the machine is hosted?
I am thinking about the domain they used might be a different one.
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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!
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.
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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...
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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.
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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!
Bangladesh has one busdyverse.one by ml
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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.
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Lemmy.world
Thats german iirc.
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(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.
Is misskey popular there? They are planning on federating channels (groups) which could make them join able on lemmy.
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I'd love to get down to the city level, even
Mastodon is getting to that point.
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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!
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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!
Tbh, I'd prefer a list.
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Is misskey popular there? They are planning on federating channels (groups) which could make them join able on lemmy.
Misskey is, of course, very popular since it was developed by a Japanese person.
I myself run a Misskey server.Sorry, but I couldn't find any information about plans for Misskey channels to federate with groups.
Misskey's developer is not very proactive about federation, so if this is true, that would be great to hear! -
Misskey is, of course, very popular since it was developed by a Japanese person.
I myself run a Misskey server.Sorry, but I couldn't find any information about plans for Misskey channels to federate with groups.
Misskey's developer is not very proactive about federation, so if this is true, that would be great to hear!I thought I saw it in the issues.
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(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.
Just a small note: lm.korako.me has effectively stopped accepting new registrations.
Because of that, it was probably left out of the list this time.I briefly explained the situation in the following post, so if you're interested, please check it out:
https://lm.korako.me/post/115527
