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!

  • kernelle@0d.gsEnglish
    38·
    3 months ago

    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.

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    35·
    3 months 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?”

  • legolas@fedit.plEnglish
    32·
    3 months ago

    Strange that Spain and Norway don’t have its own instance. Big countries

  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    3 months ago

    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?

    • Tiger@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      191·
      3 months ago

      Chinese gotta use state-approved and controlled mainstream apps and media, or access foreign stuff via VPN. Homegrown, off the grid stuff like Lemmy only gets by as long as it’s obscure.

      If it’s big enough and ornery (includes political content, rather than say just all cooking recipes and form) it’s liable to be blocked.

    • Lemminary@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      3 months ago

      It took us forever to adopt Reddit. I’m guessing it’ll take us just as long to move to FOSS. On the bright side, Lemmy is gathering some attention.

      Here’s one instance for Mexico https://mujico.org/ and I think there was one for one other SA country.

  • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    261·
    3 months 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.

    • gigachad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      111·
      3 months ago

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

      • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        3 months 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@lemmy.worldEnglish
        71·
        3 months 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@jlai.luEnglish
          51·
          3 months ago

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

          • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.worldEnglish
            81·
            3 months 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.

      • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.worldEnglish
        38·
        3 months ago

        I think there’s like 12 countries that still claim to be communist. Cuba, China and Russia off the top of my head and there’s a handful of island nations that are doing quite well with it

        • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
          37·
          3 months ago

          russia decidedly does not continue to claim to be communist. putin’s parties have all been various forms of anti-comm far right nationalist parties. the idea that russia is still a champion of communism worldwide is some weapons grade tankie copium

            • Ademir@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
              31·
              3 months ago

              nope. nobody think China is communist. Not even the Chinese. This shows you don’t know shit about it.

          • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.worldEnglish
            36·
            3 months ago

            Oh man I made the mistake of saying the word Russia and now I must be evil. You’re right, they’re not technically communist and after double checking yeah they don’t claim it anymore either. Last time I really cared about Russia’s internals was quite a while ago, and despite few changes to their economic system they definitely used to at least claim to be communist. Or that was my understanding at the time.

            The point still stands, a handful of countries claim to be communist. A handful of countries are communist. Whether that’s a good or bad thing is up to you to decide

            • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
              12·
              3 months ago

              i don’t think you’re evil. i just think it’s fascinating how pervasive “russia is still communist” is as a talking point when it’s decidedly not

              • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.worldEnglish
                43·
                3 months ago

                I remember googling “which countries are still communist” back around 2018ish and Russia being at the top of many lists. It’s just another ripple effect from propaganda that hasn’t died out yet.

                That being said, fighting propaganda is much easier with gentler words instead of name-calling in my experience

                • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
                  7·
                  3 months ago

                  where did i name call? i was just pointing out that it’s some tankie propaganda. i think your post was overall fine. ohhhh, wait did you think i was calling you a tankie? shit, i didn’t mean that, i just meant the propaganda was tankist in origin

      • mapto@feddit.bgEnglish
        8·
        3 months 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.