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It's weird that there isn't a US-specific Lemmy instance (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by WhoRoger@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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A ton of countries have a decently active Lemmy instance, including the English-speaking ones (UK, AUS, NZ, ZA).

The closest to a US one that I know of is midwest.social, which looks pretty lively from what I can tell.

Anyway, so lemmy.world is becoming quite populated with all kinds of US-specific stuff, like communities for sports teams, sometimes with generic names that could be used for other things ( !bears@lemmy.world ), states/cities like !texas@lemmy.world or even !politics@lemmy.world (while !uspolitics@lemmy.world also exists), with other instances also having duplicate comms.

I'm expecting Lemmy to have, at some point, and hopefully soon, an option to block entire instances so that we don't have to see posts especially that are country-specific. But I'll need to block all the baseball teams one by one if I want to browse all and try to find new things.

And I'm sure it would also be more convenient to have it all under one roof, just like everything about Germany is under feddit.de, and people from elsewhere can still visit if they like.

So, please someone make one? Or navigate people to the right one? Thank yooou

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[–] KeisukeTakatou@lemmy.world 60 points 1 year ago (18 children)

I mean pretty much every website is US focused unless stated otherwise.

[–] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago (9 children)

And the argument always was that Reddit/Facebook/Twitter/whatever are American.

Well, Lemmy is not. So there's no reason for it to be americanised by default.

(Unless we'll hear the argument that the internet is American :p)

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

I don't think hosting was ever the argument. It was always just that the vast majority of users were American.

Any site defaulting to English is going to attract users who predominantly speak English as their primary language, and then people who speak English as a sort of lingua franca are going to be a smaller part of that. Among native English speakers, Americans make up the majority, so that's the prevailing default you are likely to see.

Even if Lemmy.world is hosted in Europe, I'd hazard that the largest user demographic is still Americans.

[–] time_example@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Actually (!) the majority of Reddit users are not American. Although Americans make up the largest single group, they’re in the minority overall.

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