Wubbadubbadubba, 'zat true?
Also some addition: a lot of people in China does not host the Fedi server in China, mostly because the requirement of obtaining ICP License if they want to host in China
As a China-born Hongkonger, little to none for Lemmy as far as I know, but there are actually a lot of people in mainland China uses Fediverse but mostly on Mastodon and Misskey. I do have two friends in mainland China who are able to use Mastodon without VPN.
Also some fun fact(?): Each time when I need to go back to mainland China, I always check if several instances are blocked. As far as I tested last time, lemmy.world is not banned in mainland China
I am gonna do it in the comments
Finally going out again after a serious sunburnt
I think it is still extremely popular in Southeast Asia. At least here in Hong Kong, there are so many business still relying on Facebook so people just can’t move away easily
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_flags_with_blue,_red,_and_white_stripes