Social media has a lot of negatives but i think it's really cool how it connects us all from all over the world.
this post was submitted on 01 Nov 2025
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This is a shit take. OP doesn't know how the internet works. Join any instance that you like, and subscribe to the community that has a topic based on your geographical region.
I’m a member of the .world instance but I don’t even live in this planet.
Suckers.
Yeah I looked into migrating to earth but overall it didn't seem like a great idea. Most of the world is rife with hatred of aliens and has a very much higher percentage of trafficking aliens than native peoples. They seem to be highly focused on competing against each other rather than helping their societys grow together. When was there last war, today.. that number hasn't changed in thousands of cycles. An atmospheric scan shows catestorfic changes making it inhabitable for many life forms on the planet and yet still while thousands of species have died off around them, the primary "intelligent" species ignores it while lying to their peers trying to swindle themselves into a better standing so they can think they are better than others while dooming near everything. Maybe I'll go in after the next thaw in about 65,000 cycles.
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There's only one mexican instance, it uses a whitelist and it fucking federates with grad so... Yeah, out of options.
I've been here since the reddit API exodus and I've never seen a latinamerican comm in my feed, much less latinamerican spanish posts.
And hosting an instance is not that simple, it requires effort, content, time, some originality and money (even if a little)... And people who want to join, but I've seen maybe 1 mexican (who I assume lives in México too) other than me... Because mexicans love being strangled by meta, so there's little to no incentive into creating a space for us in the fediverse.
It surprises me a whole lot how few Hispanic instances there is, as far as I know feddit.cl is the biggest and kinda the only proper one.
And I've never seen their posts on my feed... I'll try searching some comms from there to here and see if it was just missing active federation.
And being the cynical asshole that I am... It doesn't surprise me at all, the technological ignorance is huge in latinamerica and we are stubborn as fuck, people just don't want to learn or try anything different, even if it could be better.
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I see your point but it depends on heavily on the servers. Some local servers are very good and some are so bad that you should stay away from them.
Maybe I could see country or even general region, but town?? Why would I want to publicly give away my location like that?
Your choice, it's just a generic recommendation.
That's exactly my point. Giving away the exact town you live in to strangers on the Internet is not good advice to give people generically.
If the user likes none of the regional instances he/she knows of, should the user recommend things he/she doesn't like?
Similarly, some instances have more clear-cut niches. If the user finds such an instance to be a good recommendation to someone interested in the fediverse, should he/she avoid it if it's too far physically from the interested user?
When I think a regional community could be good:
If the user doesn't speak English, or if neither the one recommending nor the one interested know at all what the latter wants.
And in the second case, a generalist instance like Lemmy.World or Mastodon.Social would be better, I think.
A niche instance can also be a good home, especially if the person identifies strongly with the theme. Regional is a good starting point for users with mainstream interests.
Everyone can do what they like. I just believe we have a small opportunity to strengthen our offline communities, and we should take that opportunity.
Then openly express your political and moral beliefs in your community and see how civil your community is with you. Rinse and repeat many times over. I'm sure after doing this many times, you and them will have come to a mutually respectful understanding and have a greater understanding of the world, with your beliefs reinforced by having to defend them, and your views changed by sympathizing with each other. Everyone wins, and a stronger community and democratic consensus will have been achieved.
If you have read the above and thought, "Yes, exactly." All I can say is, how nice for you. The rest of us have a reality to return to.
I'm in the UK therefore: no.
Threadi is too small for that, if it had 2 million MAUs (50% English / 50 % other langues), what you are proposing would be semi-viable.
Between Lemmy / Piefed / Mbin, we have something like ~50 K MAUs tops.
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