Says the person posting from a US instance…
I’d thought I’d see less people of the USA on Lemmy but it seems I cannot escape them
jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
luierik@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
[deleted]jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
All the different server instances are independently owned and maintained. Lemmy.world for example I believe is located in Germany or Netherlands, which I think is also where a lot of the admin staff are located? Lemmy.zip I think is hosted in the US. Check join-lemmy.org, I think it tells you where all the various instances are located. Or there’s a similar Lemmy stats site that shows it, I don’t recall exactly, which is why I keep saying “I think” as I would need to double check all that info to be sure. But it’s probably pretty close to accurate.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
.world is nevertheless plastered with US politics, even the neutrally-named ‘politics’ and ‘news’ communities are in fact about the US. I wouldn’t be surprised if the admins are in the US, just hosting the site in Europe.
hallettj@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
There are a lot of us! Especially on English-speaking forums. The US population is close to half of the entire population of Europe.
But there is a trick to almost completely avoid Americans: frequent a forum in any language other than English.
luierik@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
For now, fortunately, it is manageable with the keyword filters to filter out most of US politics, but we’ll see how long that lasts 😃