A ton of countries have a decently active Lemmy instance, including the English-speaking ones (UK, AUS, NZ, ZA).
The closest to a US one that I know of is midwest.social, which looks pretty lively from what I can tell.
Anyway, so lemmy.world is becoming quite populated with all kinds of US-specific stuff, like communities for sports teams, sometimes with generic names that could be used for other things ( [email protected] ), states/cities like [email protected] or even [email protected] (while [email protected] also exists), with other instances also having duplicate comms.
I’m expecting Lemmy to have, at some point, and hopefully soon, an option to block entire instances so that we don’t have to see posts especially that are country-specific. But I’ll need to block all the baseball teams one by one if I want to browse all and try to find new things.
And I’m sure it would also be more convenient to have it all under one roof, just like everything about Germany is under feddit.de, and people from elsewhere can still visit if they like.
So, please someone make one? Or navigate people to the right one? Thank yooou
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.
I’m not sure what you’re saying. The centralisation problem is more right now, because lemmy.world is a go-to instance for everything.