I'm genuinely interested in people thoughts about the Fediverse because here in the UK it has massively stalled in 2025, like a lot of things. I am seeing way less posts from UK people and way less interaction and general use in fact. Most seem to have stopped social media use to be fair, and I know a lot of that is to do with my age (old fart here, 56 laps round sun and counting) but the numbers game look poor from my point of view. Do we think the Fediverse has a future now after useage appears to be going downwards? Is it a UK thing? (well I know the UK is weird but hey)

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[–] 3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com 4 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

I have enjoyed this discussion but some of my UK peers have added that the fediverse in general (like most social media to be fair) when it is new seems to "american" for them. Bluesky suffers from this criticism as well. This puts a lot of UK users off. Heck even threads is described by many as too us focused right now (see the I'm in the UK is anybody else posts on threads)

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 points 11 hours ago

Feddit.UK is kinda nice as there's the little british bubble in Local

[–] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

That's really interesting. Australian here, and I've remarked several times how the userbase of the fediverse isn't dominated by American voices like most other social media platforms I've used.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

Yes, it's nice to see German, Canadian, Australian, French and all the other instances blossom

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

https://feddit.uk/ has 400 monthly active users and is as British as you can get

[–] 3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Aye it is.... but 400 users seems really small compared to others

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 16 hours ago

2500 monthly active users on !unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

https://feddit.uk/communities

[–] thenexusofprivacy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 14 hours ago

It's an interesting perspective. Historically the fediverse was more European; Mastodon is based in Germany and initially got a lot of traction in France, NLNet has contributed a lot of the funding, and there's historically more adoption by European governmental organizations than US. But these days a lot of the energy is being driven by corporate interests (Flipboard, Wordpress, Meta, Ghost) which are primarily American (Ghost being the only exception), so that's leading to a change of dynamics. Distressing, especially given what's going on here in the US!