@midwest.social is somewhere here in the Midwest π
this post was submitted on 25 Apr 2025
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The name itself is illusionary. Check out the location of the hosting. It's hosted in Germany, but of course focussing primarily on the midwest !!
Wow, learn something new every day - my bad!
Looking to be censored when the last of our democracy finally gives way?
Lemmy.today, which I use as my home instance, is. Oregon.
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/ can show others.
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/ isnt always correct, because it uses IPs, so anything behind the cloud flare will look like it's from the US, even if it's not.
Cool link
Hi friend from the same instance!
The Mbin software federates with both Lemmy and Mastodon at once. The Interstellar app works for it (+ also PieFed, though the latter does not currently federate with Mastodon, only Lemmy and itself). The largest Mbin instance iirc is fedia.io. By default you see the "Threads" content shared with Lemmy, but clicking the top left icon and then choosing "Microblog" will show content from Mastodon.
The terminology can be quite confusing, especially on Mbin compared to Lemmy - e.g. Lemmy-style "Communities" on Mbin are called "Magazines". The sharing between Lemmy, Mbin Threads/Magazines, and PieFed is called the "Threadiverse", while the sharing between Mastodon and Mbin Microblog/People does not have a unique name iirc (though I don't use Mbin or any Mastodon or Microblogging so apologies if I am incorrect here), so it just uses the wider name "Fediverse", which also includes the Threadiverse inside of it as well. A wiki is in progress, looking for contributors. That community !fediverse@piefed.social has a ton of great reading material, as too does !Fediverse@lemmy.world.
Was just thinking I havenβt seen your instance in a while
yep, bout to hit the 2 year mark.
discuss.online
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We welcome new users! We've got a signup process to keep out spam, but it's really basic. You just have to answer 3 questions and not have it be obviously AI slop. We're generally pretty quick about approving new users, and if we're not for some reason you can ping me, @jgrim@discuss.online or @lazyguru@discuss.online.
We've got a welcome thread to point you in the right direction if you're new to the discuss.online and/or the Fediverse: https://discuss.online/post/16318079. If chat is your thing, we've also got a chatroom at https://matrix.to/#/#online.discuss:discuss.online
Lastly I'll plug the !AskUSA@discuss.online community that I help mod as well. I just posted the weekly How was your week in the US? thread and asked how many geese everyone thinks they could take on.
Posts on discuss.online get federated over to lemmy instances ?
Yep, it runs on Lemmy also and federates just as you'd expect
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midwest.social
That's hosted in Germany.
My whole life is a lie!
TIL
By Americans, For Americans*
*provided by hetzner
Which is that ???
hetzner is a very popular cloud hosting provider.
programming.dev
Hosted from USA ?
As far as i know, yes
Lemmy.sdf.org
Can I open accounts on multiple instances ?
Yep. I have a backup on futurology.today. Although, I should check where it's hosted - I don't want to be fully in the US.
They're each run by a totally different organisation, so the only rules are the actual, IRL laws.
You can! I registered my first account on ml, and moved to sdf, with a third on world as a backup. You can open one on every instance if you want, or more as individual instance rules permit.
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I fear that it's only a matter of time before sh.itjust.works is...
Aren't they in Quebec? They barely accept being part of Canada, I expect that nukes will flies before having Quebec joining US
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