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IIRC, over half of Reddit's traffic was US-based. I'd be interested to see if the same is true for lemmy.world.
I think it was about 47% but it was a relative majority, or a plurality as Americans call it.
Those silly Americans, using words in line with their definitions
Huh? Everyone uses words in line with their definitions. But New Zealand English and American English have differences.
"Plurality" isn't used in NZ English, but since there are a lot of Americans here I added it as a courtesy to make my meaning clearer.
Coming from a minority country this is just something we do.
If I were commenting about, say, what we normally call "lollies", on a predominantly British website I would add "sweets" and on a predominantly American website I would add "candy".
So less than half.
Yeah less than half, but still a bigger share than any other culture so that's how they ended up being the dominant group on most subs.
When r/politics was created, and for a vast majority of reddits existence, Americans made up a majority of reddit, and for a long time made up a supermajority.
Of course there was a US-Bias.
It was less than half.