There are instances that federate together as a single sort of entity.

So, are there other entities? Meaning, is there a group of Lemmy instances somewhere outside of the existing ones we see here?

And, how do I get there, and which one don’t have people from the USA?

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  • Björn@swg-empire.de
    4·
    17 hours ago

    You could host your own and decide for yourself with which you want to federate. Or just block whatever you don’t like.

    Easiest is probably to just subscribe to the communities you like and only browse the subscribed communities. And then block instances/users you don’t want to see.

    Only other thing I have seen is instances not federating at all. Lemmy and probably Piefed as well support that out of the box. In that case they are just normal forums.

    Don’t know any Lemmy server that does that but Truth Social is actually running Mastodon and not federating with the rest of the world. Not that anyone would want to federate with that shit show anyways.

    • jaygray91@piefed.zipEnglish
      2·
      9 hours ago

      another example that’s similar like truth social that uses activitypub but a lot of the fediverse defederate with them is Threads by Meta, their own version of Twitter.

    • YourBestFriend@quokk.auOPEnglish
      5·
      17 hours ago

      Yeah, I’ll skip that truth social haha.

      The trouble with self hosting is that leads to credit card trails (unless crypto, and still) and I don’t think asking for Trump to be assassinated in no joking way is something you want so easily attached to an identity. Make them work a little bit for it.