I thought it’d be nice for the rest of the world to have a de-america’d instance where there’s no discussion of america, certainly no american politics, and no americans are allowed via IP block.

But I think to do that effectively, you’d probably have to defederate from most of the rest of lemmy, and then you’ve lost most of the federation benefits of being a lemmy instance. However I’m only vaguely familiar with how all of the connections work so maybe someone can correct me.

  • mrmaplebar@fedia.io
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    7 hours ago

    I mean, you can make whatever you want. And I get it, to quote The Clash, I’m pretty bored of the USA too.

    Of course, an IP block isn’t going to work because an American like myself can just use a VPN in another country to get around it. And yes, the moment you start federating with other instances you’re going to come across American stuff again, so unless you isolate your instance (which you could do… but then people are unlikely to join it) you’re gonna have to deal with Americans.

    With that said, I actually think it’s a great idea for people to make regional fediverse servers, not necessarily to block out Americans in an attempt at digital nationalism/isolationalism… But to make sure that the infrastructure of the internet is not so America-centric, and to make it so that there is always a place to talk about local issues and events that matter to you, in your native language.

    Even as an American, I feel that right now the internet is far too reliant on American infrastructure, services and communities.

    I’d love to see, for example, Japanese lemmy server, an Italian mastodon server, a German peertube server, a Brazilian pixelfed server, a Canadian misskey server, and so on.

    I just think that banning Americans and American topics is probably not an effective way to do it, particularly because there are lessons to be learned for us all about what is going on here right now.