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Is there any reason why there is no large generalist Lemmy instance managed from the USA? Is this just a coincidence? (feddit.org)

submitted 17 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Thinking about this lately, especially in the context of the UD elections getting discussed a lot all over Lemmy.

If you look at the top 20 instances https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy

Lemmy.world and feddit.nl are Dutch
Lemm.ee is Estonian
Feddit.org, discuss.tchncs.de are German
SJW and lemmy.ca are Canadian
Lemmy.blahaj.zone, aussie.zone and Reddthat are Australian
sopuli.xyz is Finnish
slrpnk.net is Portuguese
lemmy.dbzer0, infosec.pub, mander.xyz, programming.dev, lemmy.sdf.org are thematic
Beehaw is USA-based, but defederated from LW and SJW and still on 0.18.3, so not sure they're even that interested in Lemmy anymore

Out of the top 20, there is Midwest.social and Lemmy.today but they are quite small (326 and 201 monthly active users).

On the other hand, a lot of other countries have their own instances

feddit.uk
jlai.lu
feddit.dk
szmer.info
lemmy.eco.br
feddit.cl
feddit.it

With the USA population and the Internet presence of the USA citizens, you would expect at least one large generalist instance based in the USA, but it doesn't seem to be the case.

Any ideas what the reasons might be? Is this just a coincidence?

Edit: for Lemmy.world:

The website and the agreement will be governed by and construed per the laws of the following countries and/or states:

The Netherlands
Republic of Finland
Federal Republic of Germany

https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

But if there were, say, an analog to [email protected] but for USA, that would free up other communities to not be dominated so much by content from & for it.

e.g. if someone wanted to flee a state that did not provide abortion to one that did, they could ask the country specific one.

Though super good point that even so, perhaps it should not be hosted inside the country, especially given recent events.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

In the current context, seems like [email protected] is the way to go

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

For politics yeah. And I suppose if there is need for more, it could grow.🪴

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I'm half thinking about creating AskUSA on lemmy.today just to centralize the US discussions somewhere 😅

[–] [email protected] 1 points 49 minutes ago

Looking ahead, one difficulty might be that I don't think that existed on Reddit (or if it did, surely it wasn't well-known).

And the community sidebar is quite hidden on Lemmy especially from mobile apps. Creating a post presumes that you know exactly where you'll send it, without e.g. offering alternative solutions. I thought that Hexbear might be able to shunt posts made from one community over to another, but that probably took a modified codebase.

Oh, I see a [email protected].

Anyway if you see that there's enough demand for it (I haven't looked myself) then that sounds great!:-)