There is perennial discussion about what fediverse servers (Lemmy or otherwise) to recommend to new users. I have a proposal, perhaps not very original but I haven't seen it made often.

Let's just recommend that newbies pick an instance that is located close to them geographically. That's to say: their country, their region, or (ideally) their town.

Some context. Personally, I am not totally sold on social media, federated or otherwise. The evidence is now pretty clear that it causes major social harms. One way it does this is by fuelling polarization around hot-button national and international debates, at the expense of local issues. Reviving democracy is going to mean boosting communities at a local level. This could be a small way to do that.

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[–] Ofiuco@piefed.ca 17 points 5 days ago (21 children)

There's only one mexican instance, it uses a whitelist and it fucking federates with grad so... Yeah, out of options.

I've been here since the reddit API exodus and I've never seen a latinamerican comm in my feed, much less latinamerican spanish posts.

And hosting an instance is not that simple, it requires effort, content, time, some originality and money (even if a little)... And people who want to join, but I've seen maybe 1 mexican (who I assume lives in México too) other than me... Because mexicans love being strangled by meta, so there's little to no incentive into creating a space for us in the fediverse.

[–] A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It surprises me a whole lot how few Hispanic instances there is, as far as I know feddit.cl is the biggest and kinda the only proper one.

[–] Ofiuco@piefed.ca 2 points 4 days ago

And I've never seen their posts on my feed... I'll try searching some comms from there to here and see if it was just missing active federation.

And being the cynical asshole that I am... It doesn't surprise me at all, the technological ignorance is huge in latinamerica and we are stubborn as fuck, people just don't want to learn or try anything different, even if it could be better.

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