Until the rule is removed, any new posts about US politics will be removed.

    • Allero
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      5 hours ago

      No, US exceptionalism is turning every single general purpose community into US politics.

      For the 4% of Earth’s population that does indeed live in the US, there could be local communities.

      • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.org
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        It’s still weird to me that there is no US instance. LW and lemm.ee are hosted in Europe, SJW and lemmy.ca in Canada, lemmy.ml and hexbear use a European datacenter.

        I mean there is midwest.social and dubvee, but we could have expected a large US instance to have emerged by now.

        The closest is probably https://lemmy.today/, but only has 194 users per month.

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          49 minutes ago

          As a lemmy.today user myself (though not American), it’s cozy in there!

          But the numbers are surprisingly low. It’s an instance that is run without donations though, only on the good will of its creator (who refuses donations citing sufficient income to keep it as a hobby project), so I imagine having it big could potentially become a strain.