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It's weird that there isn't a US-specific Lemmy instance (self.fediverse)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by WhoRoger to c/fediverse

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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 ( [email protected] ), states/cities like [email protected] or even [email protected] (while [email protected] 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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[–] LexiconDexicon 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Isn't lemm.ee US based?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's Estonian (.ee is the country code for Estonia) but it's also a cool domain hack and the owner opened it to everyone.

[–] LexiconDexicon 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh, thought I saw it was US based somewhere, must've mistaken it for another instance

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

If you search for it in a site hosting checker (e.g. https://sitechecker.pro/hosting-checker/) it says it is hosted in New York. It's one of the reasons I picked the instance; I get low latency from it.

[–] WhoRoger 6 points 2 years ago

If it is, they aren't doing much to advertise it or to attract those kinds of communities.

[–] kabe 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nah, lemm.ee is hosted in the EU.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The .ee must stand for European Eunion

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Well it’s certainly not for Emerican Empire.