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  • Dubai is likely the most well-known part of the UAE, so you may have heard people mention Dubai as if it were a country (because the audience might associate more with “Dubai” than “UAE”), without them meaning to imply that it’s a real country.

    There are certainly irredentist movements in many parts of the world that want to restore previous states of geopolitics, including the existence of the Soviet Union.

    A country is ultimately a country if it is recognized as such by other countries. There are videos on the Internet that give greater details (search for keywords like “how many countries are there”). There are many places that some other countries say are countries, others not.


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    Out of the ones you mention, Dubai is in fact not a real country and I have not seen anyone claim that it is; it is a city and region of the country called the United Arab Emirates.

    Israel isn’t universally recognized by all countries because some countries claim it is illegitimate (for religious reasons, because they say it is a colonialist project, etc. etc.).

    Belgium is a country with different parts speaking different languages also spoken in neighboring countries, that is why some people have claimed it’s not (culturally) its own country, but I don’t think anyone seriously refuses to recognize it as a country.

    As for Latvia, no idea whatsoever what you’re talking about.

    So the question as asked is unanswerable because you’re giving confusing and inconsistent examples.


























  • Federation means that when anything happens on one instance (post, comment, whatever), that instance will also inform other instances of this. Which other instances? The ones that have at least one user who has indicated they are interested in that kind of activity (on Lemmy mostly: by subscribing to the community).

    So already now you can see eg my instance’s copy of a lemm.ee community at https://discuss.tchncs.de/c/[email protected] and this will not disappear just because lemm.ee goes down. It’s stored in my instance’s database. But it will no longer be possible to post or comment there because that will no longer federate to other instances.

    It’s not guaranteed that all of lemm.ee will be accessible elsewhere. Some communities might not have (always had) subscribers from other instances, which would mean no other database has stored those parts.