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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/

cross-posted from: !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl , first line

https://feddit.nl/post/23599203

Active User Growth

!politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world, Political Discussion and Commentary, 131 => 621, 46 posts (9 this week)
!risa@startrek.website, Risa, 10 => 588, 2292 posts (3 this week)
!leftism@lemmy.world, Leftism, 345 => 1641, 311 posts (11 this week)
!mtf@lemmy.blahaj.zone, Transfem, 115 => 927, 518 posts (5 this week)
!lowqualityfacts@lemmy.zip, Low Quality Facts, 50 => 577, 45 posts (5 this week)
!anarchism@slrpnk.net, Anarchism and Social Ecology, 77 => 472, 372 posts (7 this week)
!dataisbeautiful@mander.xyz, Data is Beautiful, 40 => 359, 125 posts (4 this week)
!myalgicencephalomyelitis@lemmy.blahaj.zone, ME/CFS, 17 => 92, 9 posts (1 this week)
!godot@programming.dev, Godot, 71 => 439, 703 posts (2 this week)
!trans@lemmy.blahaj.zone, Trans, 245 => 771, 245 posts (13 this week)
!collapse@sopuli.xyz, Climate Crisis, Biosphere & Societal Collapse, 58 => 371, 349 posts (7 this week)
!newmexico@lemmy.world, New Mexico, 13 => 160, 24 posts (1 this week)
!lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world, Lemmy Shitpost, 8534 => 9640, 10813 posts (156 this week)
!electoralism@hexbear.net, electoralism, 638 => 1305, 1781 posts (54 this week)
!yurimemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone, Yuri memes, 81 => 308, 131 posts (3 this week)
!postillon@feddit.org, Der Postillon, 97 => 326, 84 posts (25 this week)
!dataisbeautiful@lemmy.world, Data is Beautiful, 440 => 922, 82 posts (4 this week)
!inperson@slrpnk.net, In Person Activism, 13 => 72, 103 posts (2 this week)
!nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca, No Stupid Questions, 24 => 163, 134 posts (7 this week)
!politics@lemmy.world, politics, 9849 => 10460, 14864 posts (292 this week)
!worldnews@lemmy.ml, World News, 2067 => 2861, 14370 posts (154 this week)
!gerrich@lemmy.world, Get Rich, 21 => 112, 62 posts (3 this week)
!eli5@lemmy.world, Explain Like I'm 5 (ELI5), 10 => 75, 9 posts (1 this week)
!meow_irl@sopuli.xyz, MEOW_IRL, 196 => 443, 386 posts (1 this week)
!forgottenweapons@lemmy.world, Forgotten Weapons, 73 => 226, 600 posts (4 this week)

Subscriber Growth

!flippanarchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com, Flippanarchy, 49 => 80, 51 posts (6 this week)
!world@quokk.au, World News, 185 => 211, 267 posts (66 this week)
!interestingshare@lemmy.zip, Interesting Shares, 927 => 986, 546 posts (12 this week)
!factorio@lemmy.world, Factorio, 857 => 913, 132 posts (11 this week)
!fedimemes@feddit.uk, Fediverse memes, 272 => 298, 56 posts (7 this week)
!astrophotography@lemmy.world, Astrophotography, 1694 => 1752, 139 posts (4 this week)
!historyruins@lemmy.world, History Ruins, 503 => 530, 185 posts (5 this week)
!nonpolitical_memes@lemmy.ml, Non-Political Memes, 904 => 940, 463 posts (19 this week)
!internationale@hexbear.net, Internationale, 78 => 88, 47 posts (4 this week)
!aiop@lemmy.world, AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND, 657 => 684, 862 posts (33 this week)
!goodlongread@lemmy.world, goodLongRead, 115 => 126, 99 posts (11 this week)

As always, disclaimer that I'm not a US citizen.

You usually see quite a few people mentioning leaving the country if Trump would get elected, but how realistic are those plans?

Not to say it's not justified with the prospect of Project 2025 (see the other thread), but seems like a huge life change that is probably not possible for most of the people.

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.

Non-American here, heard about Project 2025 a few weeks ago.

For people unaware:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025#Policies

What is the likelihood of those policies to happen?

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

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

Can maybe help due to the recent events

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.