Brisbane

Ahhh, that's a fair question. I've pretty much left my feed settings to what they were the day I signed up, other than blocking instances / communities that exclusively use languages I don't know. I guess that means I see Australian, New Zealand..ian, Canadian and other instances, since they all at least partially use the one language I know. I honestly didn't notice you were from an Australian instance until you mentioned it.

I block the ones with which I can't communicate because neither of us is likely to be useful to each other any time soon, but I still want to have some awareness of the world. I'll probably never be in Australia, but I can learn a bit about its politicians, climate and people. Also, I can learn what other countries are saying about America (though I admit I rarely enjoy reading it). Besides that, from what I've seen here and elsewhere, it's a beautiful country if you respect nature. If I had blocked this instance, I wouldn't have seen your lovely block (another thing I might learn - I'm not familiar with that word in this context) nor your interesting box. Or maybe I misunderstood federation.

I'm glad you got to come to NY and enjoyed your stay! I love NY, too, but I've only been to NYC once and that was ... I think three years after the twin towers were gone. I did once see a salvaged piece of their foundation in Baltimore, though, IIRC.