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!

    • Trail@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 months ago

      The is a Greek sub, with a few news posts daily, but noone is really commenting yet.

      I had left the Greek sub on Reddit a few years back because the mods were assholes, so I don’t really miss a Greek sub to be honest.

      • 鴉河雛@Lemmy@lm.korako.meEnglish
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        10 months ago

        (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.

          • 鴉河雛@Lemmy@lm.korako.meEnglish
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            10 months ago

            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!

    • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      10 months ago

      There is (was?) an Indian one… but run by hindutva (extreme right-wing) nationalists, so I think we can skip that one.

      There is also one that is located in Japan, but no idea if it can be described as an instance for Japan.

      • mapto@feddit.bgEnglish
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        10 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.

  • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 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.

    • yunxiaoli@sh.itjust.worksBannedEnglish
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      10 months ago

      No, the French were not peace keeping, and no just because whites left does not mean they’re now Russian vassals.

      Stop defending colonialism.

      • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 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
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          10 months ago

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

        • yunxiaoli@sh.itjust.worksBannedEnglish
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          10 months ago

          Given how the French acts in its colonies… There isn’t a worse set. You either truly have no understanding of how evil the French have been in their colonies right up to modern day, or are under the assumption the oppressed aren’t smart enough to make their own decisions, which would make you racist.

          You don’t get to decide what the colonized do after shaking off oppression. And it’s no surprise they stop cooperating with western society given how absolutely evil it is in their eyes. To you Russia is this evil imperial power. To an actual foreign colony of an evil imperial power, it is less evil than their previous owners, if only because it’s not their previous owners.

          Maybe that ends poorly, maybe not, but when you’ve been oppressing people for decades they get to a point where killing themselves is better than continuing to do anything that doesn’t actively harm you.

          You know those ‘woke’ people that always go on about the colonizer mindset? They’re talking about you.

          • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            10 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.

      • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 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.

  • kernelle@0d.gsEnglish
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    10 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.