I stuck a service on https://kbin.world that redirects you based on a IP lookup for your country. In descending order it tries to;

  • If there is a kbin instance for your country it redirects you there (Just Poland for now!)

  • If you have a feddit instance for your country it redirects you to the most appropriate magazine on that instance, within kbin.social eg Germany

  • If you have a large national community on another Lemmy instance it redirects you there, again within kbin.social (eg Brasil)

For the ones I haven’t got around to it redirects you to kbin.social homepage

It could be broken down to regions too. As more national or regional kbin instances emerge I’ll replace the existing feddit/other sites.

I did a bit of testing with Pingdom and it seems to work

In the process I noticed that New Zealand and Japan feddit instances won’t load for some reason. Any idea why?

  • Ori@sacredori.net
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    1 year ago

    Just redirects me to kbin.social homepage. I do recall seeing this before (in Matrix, I believe?) and it had worked then, or rather it gave me the “us news” magazine.

    • Sam_uk@kbin.socialOP
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      1 year ago

      @Ori I’m making the US regional, I forgot to add in a default for areas outside of the covered regions. It should work again now.