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3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

I have enjoyed this discussion but some of my UK peers have added that the fediverse in general (like most social media to be fair) when it is new seems to “american” for them. Bluesky suffers from this criticism as well. This puts a lot of UK users off. Heck even threads is described by many as too us focused right now (see the I’m in the UK is anybody else posts on threads)

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ada@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
That's really interesting. Australian here, and I've remarked several times how the userbase of the fediverse isn't dominated by American voices like most other social media platforms I've used.

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- Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Yes, it’s nice to see German, Canadian, Australian, French and all the other instances blossom
  
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  - mad_lentil@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Yay I was included in a list!
    
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Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
feddit.uk has 400 monthly active users and is as British as you can get

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- Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I think most of us are based on different instances too, the main UK community is showing more than double that per day.
  
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- 3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Aye it is… but 400 users seems really small compared to others
  
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  - Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    2500 monthly active users on !unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
    
    feddit.uk/communities
    
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    3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    again - no bias but that seems tiny compared to other “things”
    
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Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Feddit.UK is kinda nice as there’s the little british bubble in Local

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thenexusofprivacy@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
It’s an interesting perspective. Historically the fediverse was more European; Mastodon is based in Germany and initially got a lot of traction in France, NLNet has contributed a lot of the funding, and there’s historically more adoption by European governmental organizations than US. But these days a lot of the energy is being driven by corporate interests (Flipboard, Wordpress, Meta, Ghost) which are primarily American (Ghost being the only exception), so that’s leading to a change of dynamics. Distressing, especially given what’s going on here in the US!

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