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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)
The general atmosphere here is, though. There’s still lots of US defaultism over here.
It would be interesting to see a geographic breakdown of the Lemmy population.
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.
(I think Canadian representation really expanded a lot, and European too, after Trump got elected and Reddit started sucking elon’s dick)
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.
I'll never understand why !politics@lemmy.world and !news@lemmy.world are US-specific when LW is a European instance
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.
Most of Europeans speak English even if they're not from the UK, Ireland or Malta