Every Country That Has Their Own Lemmy Instance
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Humble would have been not asserting it in the first place.
You weren't "a victim of propaganda", my god, have some humility. What you were was ignorant.
I didn't assert it. In fact, I very intentionally used passive language to avoid asserting it as a truth. I said "I think there are... That claim to be"
I didn't say "Russia claims to be communist" or the likes.
I specifically phrased it that way to communicate that that was my understanding and not necessarily the truth. Then, someone told me my understanding was wrong and I corrected it. Then you came along, doing whatever this is.
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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
Don't a lot of places also have limited data plans, but unlimited data for using Meta and other big tech platforms? That's still a thing right?
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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?
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 @[email protected]'s fedi-safety to prevent CSAM from being uploaded on your instance.
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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
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Don't a lot of places also have limited data plans, but unlimited data for using Meta and other big tech platforms? That's still a thing right?
That's still a thing right?
all the shitty ISP's in most of the African countries make deals with Meta to steal and sell all your data
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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 one 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 leat 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?
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If there are so many, why do I only see Feddit when I browse All?
Feddit.org. Feddit.de has been dead for months
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I didn't assert it. In fact, I very intentionally used passive language to avoid asserting it as a truth. I said "I think there are... That claim to be"
I didn't say "Russia claims to be communist" or the likes.
I specifically phrased it that way to communicate that that was my understanding and not necessarily the truth. Then, someone told me my understanding was wrong and I corrected it. Then you came along, doing whatever this is.
I think there are
Yes, and that's the arrogance that I was talking out; thinking that your completely baseless thoughts are worth sharing.
someone told me my understanding was wrong
From what I can tell, your understanding is still wrong, given this "I was a victim of propaganda" talk.
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midwest.social is sorta the defacto US-specific instance despite the name pointing to a specific region.
Midwest US reporting in!
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I swear Mujico (Mexico) was around for a bit. I wonder if it's still up.
Seguimos vivos, pero casi que fuera de la federación jaja, nos votaron por nuestros chistes pasados de lanza. Saludos.
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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.
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Guten TagIch bin MrNemobody.
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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!
What's the French one?
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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:)
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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!
What is the Portugal 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!
not aware of turkish instance. what is it?
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What is the Portugal one?
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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.
Just in case, there is also the french version of [email protected]
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Let's put [email protected] in lemmy.dbzer0.com
Nice idea !
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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!
you could categorize lemm.ee but it's a general instance so not really
