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/

Hello everyone,

There seems to be some federation delay between lemm.ee and lemmy.ml: https://grafana.lem.rocks/d/bdid38k9p0t1cf/federation-health-single-instance-overview?orgId=1&var-instance=lemm.ee&var-remote_instance=lemmy.ml

There is now a more than 5 days delay between the two instances

@sunaurus@lemm.ee FYI

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.

The whole project seems down

• https://sffa.community/
• https://sffa.wiki/wiki/Science-Fiction_Fantasy_Alliance

There were a few fantasy communities there such as !fantasy@sffa.community , sad to see them go

!interestingshare@lemmy.zip

Just posted the NASA website for the recent Valencia floods

!esports@lemmy.zip

!esports@lemmy.zip