Singapore has a bunch on Fedimap, somehow more servers show up for me (on mobile) when you zoom in. They are English speaking which is in line with what I said. China, Hong Kong and Taiwan have a handful too. Six Mastodon instances in Chile. The topic is non-US Mastodon hosts, so the discussion has been centered around where federated social media is hosted rather than the best place to hold a small online group chat (and your original reply was about posting to Mastodon).
Most people would rather not have to figure out a second set of rules when hosting, on a server halfway across the world, and having to pay currency exchange fees, and liase with a foreign company’s support page etc.etc. Each thing is a little bit of friction that makes people avoid that if they don’t need to. For having to go through the hurdles of hosting in a vastly different third country, what is it that you gain? Apparently I haven’t gotten a clear grasp of what you are averse to about hosting in Europe, Canada and similar, or if it’s just a matter that you want to take the road less trodden.
It’s the political culture of extreme paranoia, global domination, trying to ban encryption, sophisticated torture camps, IP insanity where they haul pirate site guys away for years, killed a guy over downloading academic papers off JSTOR, etcetera (no really, ETCETERA, it goes on and on) for me. You’re right about fedimap, I will see if there is more going on than I looked at last year. Plus, stuff like that and Fedidb is opt-in, which is why I was hoping there was more stuff lurking around. You’re right about friction but it’s easy for me to turn stuff like this into a game.
Well if you want a game on God level difficulty, try to get a site started in China. Just let me know before you begin so I can get the world’s largest tub of popcorn while I watch.
Again, that was an idea that spawned out of the guy who blocks every single Chinese and Russian website with UBlock. For a “boycott US” community, you guys sure seem obsessed with aligning against its enemies on time. Considering you would set up a website that reposts the Reddit Tiananmen Square copypasta 1000x a day and I would make a website that actually does something, I could probably teach you a thing or two.
I live in China, you utter berk. The reason I am laughing at the notion of someone setting a site up in China from abroad is I AM INTIMATELY FAMILIAR WITH THE REGULATIONS!
Hell, as an expat actually resident in China, setting up a personal web site would be a tedious, frustrating grind. AND I CAN UNDERSTAND THE LANGUAGE ON THE FORMS. Having someone say “I can turn stuff like this into a game” is just so utterly fucking ignorant it makes me want to gather up a huge tub of popcorn while I watch you navigate a system that’s harder than even the one I would have to navigate would be.
Just watching you navigate the SMS requirement would be hilarious.
Well, that will be a huge roadblock to the plan which I had dismissed outright from the start, and had no intention of pursuing. Maybe I can learn to live with letting down such a helpful mentor figure. ☺️
Singapore has a bunch on Fedimap, somehow more servers show up for me (on mobile) when you zoom in. They are English speaking which is in line with what I said. China, Hong Kong and Taiwan have a handful too. Six Mastodon instances in Chile. The topic is non-US Mastodon hosts, so the discussion has been centered around where federated social media is hosted rather than the best place to hold a small online group chat (and your original reply was about posting to Mastodon).
Most people would rather not have to figure out a second set of rules when hosting, on a server halfway across the world, and having to pay currency exchange fees, and liase with a foreign company’s support page etc.etc. Each thing is a little bit of friction that makes people avoid that if they don’t need to. For having to go through the hurdles of hosting in a vastly different third country, what is it that you gain? Apparently I haven’t gotten a clear grasp of what you are averse to about hosting in Europe, Canada and similar, or if it’s just a matter that you want to take the road less trodden.
It’s the political culture of extreme paranoia, global domination, trying to ban encryption, sophisticated torture camps, IP insanity where they haul pirate site guys away for years, killed a guy over downloading academic papers off JSTOR, etcetera (no really, ETCETERA, it goes on and on) for me. You’re right about fedimap, I will see if there is more going on than I looked at last year. Plus, stuff like that and Fedidb is opt-in, which is why I was hoping there was more stuff lurking around. You’re right about friction but it’s easy for me to turn stuff like this into a game.
Well if you want a game on God level difficulty, try to get a site started in China. Just let me know before you begin so I can get the world’s largest tub of popcorn while I watch.
(The clue is “ICP”.)
Again, that was an idea that spawned out of the guy who blocks every single Chinese and Russian website with UBlock. For a “boycott US” community, you guys sure seem obsessed with aligning against its enemies on time. Considering you would set up a website that reposts the Reddit Tiananmen Square copypasta 1000x a day and I would make a website that actually does something, I could probably teach you a thing or two.
What the flying fuck are you talking about?
I live in China, you utter berk. The reason I am laughing at the notion of someone setting a site up in China from abroad is I AM INTIMATELY FAMILIAR WITH THE REGULATIONS!
Hell, as an expat actually resident in China, setting up a personal web site would be a tedious, frustrating grind. AND I CAN UNDERSTAND THE LANGUAGE ON THE FORMS. Having someone say “I can turn stuff like this into a game” is just so utterly fucking ignorant it makes me want to gather up a huge tub of popcorn while I watch you navigate a system that’s harder than even the one I would have to navigate would be.
Just watching you navigate the SMS requirement would be hilarious.
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Well, that will be a huge roadblock to the plan which I had dismissed outright from the start, and had no intention of pursuing. Maybe I can learn to live with letting down such a helpful mentor figure. ☺️