Every Country That Has Their Own Lemmy Instance
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Damn Sunshine, you've been popping off on content. Formally, thank you
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Ahh pinche raza xd
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Did you meanā¦
the country club?
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Works well.
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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.
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I found just one Japanese instance. It is unfortunate that Lemmy is not well-known in Japan.
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Russia and China not filled in
Lol
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Hey, where's Norway? And Iceland?
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This is encouraging, I'll probably go and do it. Thanks for the insight.
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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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(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 Japaneseānot 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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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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We're taking a free ride on the Finns. [email protected]
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Those electric cars arenāt going to pay for themselves!
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This is where the machine is hosted?
I am thinking about the domain they used might be a different one.
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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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Same, I've had to surf along with The Neighbours to find something close by and stable...
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Lemmy.world is also hosted in the Netherlands IIRC, I'm just proxying through the UK.
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Bangladesh has one busdyverse.one by ml
