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It's weird that there isn't a US-specific Lemmy instance
(lemmy.world)
A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).
If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to !moderators@lemmy.world!
Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration), Search Lemmy
New instances have it super hard in general. This is an issue the Lemmy system needs to resolve somehow.
Once you introduce anything that resembles an discovery algorithm, some people will lose their mind.
It's difficult to come up with an onboarding solution that doesn't give overwhelming power to the hands of a few people (who operate the onboarding platform), leading to centralization again.
If everyone was directed to one central onboarding platform, the operators could choose to advertise and censor instances as they saw fit – which is why I don't recommend potential Mastodon users to the join-mastodon.org server picker, because all of the instances there are hand-picked by mastodon.social admins.
I didn't expect security and outage threats to be the factor that keeps big instances in check, but I'm kind of glad for it.