overview for Blaze

!politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world seems like a good place to redirect those conversations, maybe you could consider adding it to the sidebar, should the rule become permanent?

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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 5 hours 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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Federation issues between Lemm.ee and Lemmy.ml (feddit.org)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) by Blaze@feddit.org to c/meta@lemm.ee

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Hello everyone,

There seems to be some federation delay between lemm.ee and lemmy.ml: https://grafana.lem.rocks/d/bdid38k9p0t1cf/federation-health-single-instance-overview?orgId=1&var-instance=lemm.ee&var-remote_instance=lemmy.ml

There is now a more than 5 days delay between the two instances

@sunaurus@lemm.ee FYI

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!politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world as an alternative (i.imgflip.com)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Blaze@feddit.org to c/fedimemes@feddit.uk

10 comments fedilink

!politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world

Context: https://lemmy.world/c/politics

As a consequence, !asklemmy@lemmy.world mods got a lot of resentment from people wanting to discuss the elections on that community, when they decided to temporarily ban the topic as well: https://lemmy.world/post/21696356

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Discussion an Ask community that would not be on LW nor lemmy.ml (feddit.org)

submitted 1 day ago by Blaze@feddit.org to c/fedigrow@lemm.ee

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Seems like there is an appetite from a few people from aussie.zone so that you guys can be kept up-to-date.

Pinging a few other people that are usually interested in this kind of stuff.

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Communities to discuss the aftermath of the US election (feddit.org)

submitted 1 day ago by Blaze@feddit.org to c/newcommunities@lemmy.world

2 comments fedilink

Opposite to the last thread, let's see where to send people now that communities like !asklemmy@lemmy.world have temporary rules preventing discussing about US politics

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lemmyf.uk shutting down (lemmyf.uk)

submitted 1 day ago by Blaze@feddit.org to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

24 comments fedilink

Sad to see them go, but all the best to the admin!

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What are your favorite communities which are NOT about politics or news? (feddit.org)

submitted 2 days ago by Blaze@feddit.org to c/newcommunities@lemmy.world

52 comments fedilink

Can maybe help due to the recent events

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Still a mystery to this day (i.imgflip.com)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by Blaze@feddit.org to c/fedimemes@feddit.uk

113 comments fedilink

Context

List of instances defederating from Threads, the Meta microblogging platform: https://fedipact.veganism.social/
At the moment, Threads have incomplete federation with Fediverse microblogging instances: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-86/
Another meme about Threads: https://feddit.uk/post/18194873
Threads does not currently federate with link aggregators (Lemmy, Piefed)
Threads could work with the microblogging part of Mbin

The main arguments for people to defederate are

"Embrace, extend, and extinguish" strategy: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
A potential federation with Threads (should Thread decide to implement it) would overwhelm Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed with millions of users (compared to the 40k monthly current active users), transforming those platforms into a threaded version of Facebook
Defederating preventively costs nothing

LW stance: https://lemmy.world/post/1274909?scrollToComments=true

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Just tried to register an account for Loops (there are 1000 videos available according to the fediverse report), no email received so far, have other people encountered the same issue? (fediversereport.com)

submitted 2 days ago by Blaze@feddit.org to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

15 comments fedilink

Loops.video, the short-form video platform has finally launched, after weeks of delays. There is now an iOS app on TestFlight available, as well as an Android APK, and it there is no waitlist anymore. In some statistics shared by Loops developed Daniel Supernault, Loops now has more than 8000 people signed up and close to a 1000 videos posted.

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Some juicy drama over there (i.imgflip.com)

submitted 3 days ago by Blaze@feddit.org to c/fedimemes@feddit.uk

9 comments fedilink

!yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com