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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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Blaze@feddit.org to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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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[-] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Midwest.Socisl

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[-] nanook@friendica.eskimo.com 3 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 4 points 1 month 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.

[-] blibla@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago

doesn't make much difference where your instance is hosted as long as it's not north korea or something

[-] Blaze@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

I was referring to the tendency of US citizens to overtake generically named communities like !politics@lemmy.world

If LW was managed by a US team, why not, but it's not so it just seems strange

[-] blibla@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago

i get that and you are right that they do. I would guess that most users are us americans despite them not managing the instance. That's where i am coming from when i say, that it doesn't matter where the instance is hosted