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.
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.