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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 15 hours ago* (last edited 6 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] 10 points 15 hours ago (5 children)

.world is more or less an American instance in all but name.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

dbzer0 is only as thematic as ml is imo

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

For me it's the piracy instance, and I didn't mention ml, hexbear or grad as they aren't generalist

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I'm on ml and it seems pretty general. It has a bit more fringe contingent than world, but everything else is there too.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

The instance bans seem to happen quite often https://lemmy.world/post/16211417

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I've tried to bring up a Lemmy Instance but the instructions and documentation just are not clear. I want to bring it up with the instance itself not on the same server as the web server and the database, but it wires everything to localhost.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago

mbin is pretty modular. you can totally segment services if you know what youre doin... in fact part of the reason i chose it, for scaling.

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