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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/

cross-posted from: [email protected] , first line

https://feddit.nl/post/23599203

Active User Growth

[email protected], Political Discussion and Commentary, 131 => 621, 46 posts (9 this week)
[email protected], Risa, 10 => 588, 2292 posts (3 this week)
[email protected], Leftism, 345 => 1641, 311 posts (11 this week)
[email protected], Transfem, 115 => 927, 518 posts (5 this week)
[email protected], Low Quality Facts, 50 => 577, 45 posts (5 this week)
[email protected], Anarchism and Social Ecology, 77 => 472, 372 posts (7 this week)
[email protected], Data is Beautiful, 40 => 359, 125 posts (4 this week)
[email protected], ME/CFS, 17 => 92, 9 posts (1 this week)
[email protected], Godot, 71 => 439, 703 posts (2 this week)
[email protected], Trans, 245 => 771, 245 posts (13 this week)
[email protected], Climate Crisis, Biosphere & Societal Collapse, 58 => 371, 349 posts (7 this week)
[email protected], New Mexico, 13 => 160, 24 posts (1 this week)
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[email protected], Der Postillon, 97 => 326, 84 posts (25 this week)
[email protected], Data is Beautiful, 440 => 922, 82 posts (4 this week)
[email protected], In Person Activism, 13 => 72, 103 posts (2 this week)
[email protected], No Stupid Questions, 24 => 163, 134 posts (7 this week)
[email protected], politics, 9849 => 10460, 14864 posts (292 this week)
[email protected], World News, 2067 => 2861, 14370 posts (154 this week)
[email protected], Get Rich, 21 => 112, 62 posts (3 this week)
[email protected], Explain Like I'm 5 (ELI5), 10 => 75, 9 posts (1 this week)
[email protected], MEOW_IRL, 196 => 443, 386 posts (1 this week)
[email protected], Forgotten Weapons, 73 => 226, 600 posts (4 this week)

Subscriber Growth

[email protected], Flippanarchy, 49 => 80, 51 posts (6 this week)
[email protected], World News, 185 => 211, 267 posts (66 this week)
[email protected], Interesting Shares, 927 => 986, 546 posts (12 this week)
[email protected], Factorio, 857 => 913, 132 posts (11 this week)
[email protected], Fediverse memes, 272 => 298, 56 posts (7 this week)
[email protected], Astrophotography, 1694 => 1752, 139 posts (4 this week)
[email protected], History Ruins, 503 => 530, 185 posts (5 this week)
[email protected], Non-Political Memes, 904 => 940, 463 posts (19 this week)
[email protected], Internationale, 78 => 88, 47 posts (4 this week)
[email protected], AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND, 657 => 684, 862 posts (33 this week)
[email protected], goodLongRead, 115 => 126, 99 posts (11 this week)

Hello everyone,

There seems to be some federation delay between lemm.ee and lemmy.ml: https://grafana.lem.rocks/d/bdid38k9p0t1cf/federation-health-single-instance-overview?orgId=1&var-instance=lemm.ee&var-remote_instance=lemmy.ml

There is now a more than 5 days delay between the two instances

@[email protected] FYI

[email protected]

Context: https://lemmy.world/c/politics

As a consequence, [email protected] mods got a lot of resentment from people wanting to discuss the elections on that community, when they decided to temporarily ban the topic as well: https://lemmy.world/post/21696356

As always, disclaimer that I'm not a US citizen.

You usually see quite a few people mentioning leaving the country if Trump would get elected, but how realistic are those plans?

Not to say it's not justified with the prospect of Project 2025 (see the other thread), but seems like a huge life change that is probably not possible for most of the people.

Seems like there is an appetite from a few people from aussie.zone so that you guys can be kept up-to-date.

Pinging a few other people that are usually interested in this kind of stuff.

Non-American here, heard about Project 2025 a few weeks ago.

For people unaware:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025#Policies

What is the likelihood of those policies to happen?

Opposite to the last thread, let's see where to send people now that communities like [email protected] have temporary rules preventing discussing about US politics

Sad to see them go, but all the best to the admin!

Can maybe help due to the recent events

Context

• List of instances defederating from Threads, the Meta microblogging platform: https://fedipact.veganism.social/
• At the moment, Threads have incomplete federation with Fediverse microblogging instances: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-86/
• Another meme about Threads: https://feddit.uk/post/18194873
• Threads does not currently federate with link aggregators (Lemmy, Piefed)
• Threads could work with the microblogging part of Mbin

The main arguments for people to defederate are

• "Embrace, extend, and extinguish" strategy: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
• A potential federation with Threads (should Thread decide to implement it) would overwhelm Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed with millions of users (compared to the 40k monthly current active users), transforming those platforms into a threaded version of Facebook
• Defederating preventively costs nothing

LW stance: https://lemmy.world/post/1274909?scrollToComments=true