I see a lot of posts from the EU and North America but not from other continents.
There are 1.4 Billion people behind 2 walls, the infamous firewall of censorship, and, most importantly, the language barrier.
My parents are in the US, so the first wall is gone, but they still have the second wall, and they don’t want to leap over that wall and continues to use their walled garden Wechat with their corporate algorithms and privacy intrutions like facebook/instagram.
Lemmy is mostly only advertised in Reddit, so most Lemmy users are former Reddit users. And since Reddit is mostly European / North American, the same trend follows.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
It’s mostly an English language forum. But there’s instances that are set up in German, and I wanna say Farsi (don’t hold me to that, I’m going off what someone else said it was). There’s communities that are Spanish and Portuguese based, though I can’t recall if there’s instances in those or not. I’ve seen Cyrillic posts and comments, though I couldn’t tell you anything more than that.
So, it’s not totally western world, just damn near it.
There’s a decided lack of Asian presence in years terms of instances, but there are users that have said they’re from japan, korea, and thailand (iirc).
I’ve yet to run across anyone saying they’re from anywhere in Africa.
South America, I’m not sure if you count as western or not, but there’s definitely some folks from Brazil, and I wanna say Venezuela? But it’s been a few months since I ran into that conversation, could have been something made me think Venezuela when it was somewhere else.
But, tbh, lemmy started out as, and still is, a reddit offshoot. Reddit was not only predominantly western, but predominantly american in user base. Lemmy seems a little more diverse than that, and also seems to be shifting at least more European than reddit ever has been.
I’m pulling all this from memory of seeing people talk about where they’re from, over mostly the last two years, since before the reddit debacle in 23, I maybe used lemmy a handful of times, just to keep track of how it was going.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 4 weeks ago
Monyet.cc is a Malaysian instance .
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Nice :)