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- Wait at least 2 months before reposting
- No explicitly political content (about political figures, political events, elections and so on), !politicalmemes@lemmy.ca can be better place for that
- Use NSFW marking accordingly
Laittakaa meemejä tänne.
- Odota ainakin 2 kuukautta ennen meemin postaamista uudelleen
- Ei selkeän poliittista sisältöä (poliitikoista, poliittisista tapahtumista, vaaleista jne) parempi paikka esim. !politicalmemes@lemmy.ca
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American self-reporting
I'd thought I'd see less people of the USA on Lemmy but it seems I cannot escape them
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.
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 😃
Says the person posting from a US instance…
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.
.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.
The “communities” don’t necessarily reflect the instances on which they are hosted. There might be a politics or news community on some other instance which you prefer.
Pretty sure at least some of the admins there are in Europe.
I mainly switched off of .world because it was so heavily over-represented in the fediverse both in terms of communities and users. I was hoping to help distribute things more evenly which I think is more I. the spirit and intention of the fediverse.
And not sure why that other user deleted their comment, I was just trying to answer their question.