Don't forget about sh.itjust.works! But yeah it's nice to see some strong Canadian representation. And it's nice to see that Lemmy is slightly less US-centric than reddit.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I would even go beyond that, there's only one top 20 server hosted in the US, and it's not obviously US-centric (programming.dev)

[–] DonAntonioMagino@feddit.nl 8 points 10 months ago (4 children)

The general atmosphere here is, though. There’s still lots of US defaultism over here.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 6 points 10 months ago

It would be interesting to see a geographic breakdown of the Lemmy population.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'll never understand why !politics@lemmy.world and !news@lemmy.world are US-specific when LW is a European instance

[–] canihasaccount@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Maybe, but at least some folks have less of it. Me, for example. On Reddit, I generally assumed most folks were from the US, or bots. On here, I generally assume folks are equally--if not more--likely to be from a country in Europe, or Canada. I also see way more German representation here than I did on Reddit.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

(I think Canadian representation really expanded a lot, and European too, after Trump got elected and Reddit started sucking elon’s dick)

[–] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

Now that you mention it, it has been a lot better lately. That seems likely given the explosion of Boycott US and Buy European communities lately. It has definitely improved since six months ago when US election discussion was shoehorned into every comment section.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Less than Reddit, but still a fuckload.

I mean I guess the people who spend their times on english speaking internet forums has a large chunk americans, you know, given the US population is 300+ million, while Canada, Australia, New Zeland, Ireland and Britain don’t even make half the US population when added together.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

Most of Europeans speak English even if they're not from the UK, Ireland or Malta