• Blaze (he/him)
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    251 month ago

    Yeah, that’s definitely a shame. Let’s see how it goes, but I’m about to create a !usdefaultism somewhere just to list those occurrences

      • Hanrahan
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        111 hours ago

        That’s interesting, I had “assuned” a way higher percentage of European users (am Australian)

        Thanks for that

      • Zoidsberg
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        181 month ago

        Less than half, that actually surprises me. I honestly assume most people I meet online are Yanks.

        • @Serinus
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          51 month ago

          I could see the numbers being a little different for Lemmy, but I don’t expect that they’re wildly different.

        • @[email protected]
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          41 month ago

          I think a lot of people talk like Yanks, or just don’t clarify. I’ve had conversations with other Brits where we both assume the other is a Yank.

      • @[email protected]
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        51 month ago

        Yoink

        Grabbing that for future reference. That’s the stats from 2024? Is there like a link to the actual source? Significantly more US-centered then I thought, especially since one would assume the numbers were even more skewed 5-10 years ago.

        Lemmy is much more weighted towards an international userbase in my experience, which can be frustrating for the American audience at times, but also has its benefits.

      • Blaze (he/him)
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        21 month ago

        Would you have such stats for LW? Really curious as it feels more balanced here

        • @AdrianTheFrog
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          21 month ago

          With the data from https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list,

          Honestly neither of these give a very good impression of where users are from, but I don’t think lemmy collects that data. Maybe if there was some way to check which languages people have listed?

          • Blaze (he/him)
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            11 month ago

            Yes, it’s a bit difficult to infer any trend indeed, could be thousands of 1 person instances.

            Languages don’t really work either, people tend to just speak English on the Internet. That’s why I was asking Serinus, I thought maybe on LW they would have some data

            Actually I remember this data from lemmy.zip:

            https://lemmy.zip/post/29448608?scrollToComments=true

      • @[email protected]
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        21 month ago

        This is awesome; I’m too tired to do it right now - but I’d I remember I’d really like to normalise this against country populations to see what percent of a nation is a Reddit user.

        At a glance, I’m pretty sure Australia is punching well above its weight - if nothing else.

      • Blaze (he/him)
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        11 month ago

        I’ve seen it, but seems abandoned, and not a fan of yet another community on LW

    • Bob
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      11 month ago

      It’s actually the second or third thing I mention about Lemmy if it ever comes up in conversation. Sometimes I feel like just dropping it because of it.