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Instead of complaining can someone who dislikes this decision please just create a community like "AskLemmyUS", post a link here so people can find it and get on with it?
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I like preference for self posts!
Proper discussion, not politics echo chamber staffed by dnc clowns
That better be talking about a lack of diverse left wing opinions, not just a lack of republicans
both... and more...
US political discourse is a pathetic Republican/Democrat circle jerk, then pika face when all we get are regime whore clowns swapping the office while quality of life deteriorates for bottom 80%
Republicans don't have any political policy, so it's not surprising that there's noyhing to discuss.
Did not stop them from the spanking the "good guys" in these elections lol
Ha ha very funny I love when fundamental rights get eroded
why is u mad tho?
y'all played stupid politics and lost... maybe learn something from it. or keep fucking losing and having melt downs over it.
BUT NEVER QUESTION DNC KOMISSAR
I just told you why. Begone, troll, for you have no place here.
🤡 keep up the good work dear
That's what I've told so many complaining people. If anyone wanted to they could make one and it would be filled with users in hours, just click create community. Hell tell the mods here to suggest people go there for those discussions, they'd probably link it in the sidebar. But someone has to do it. (And as a mod of a few other communities, someone else can take that one)
But that would be US ExCePtIoNaLiSm!
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.
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.
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.
There used to be dmv.social, which iirc was in Washington DC? It got shut down due to the CSAM attacks, before the automated software, and iirc just frustration in general with how toxic people were being.
And I see a bunch more actually, at https://lemmy.fediverse.observer. 2 of the top 20 instances even are located in the USA. Lemmy.sdf.org with >500 MAUs, beehaw.org with ~400, StarTrek.website with ~200, lemmy.today, ttrpgnetwork, and discuss.online (where jgrim of SubLinks is an admin) are all recognizable. Ofc, the caveat being if I am reading that page correctly - or like perhaps some proxy was used, even a random one and this data could be all wrong who knows - but it at least looks this way?:-)
Damn good thing. We definitely don't want one hosted in a fascist country.
Hey, we won't be fascist for at least another month or two!? 🗓️