A lot of main communities (especially regarding technology, news and politics) are located in .world and .ml, so users from all instances will participate there.

And people who signed up on that instance signed up themselves.

It seems like about 50% of the recommenders in this thread didn’t read OPs list of requirements at all.

It requires that you write an application and that that application gets accepted by admins for you to join though. So it is not really an option.

If they haven’t even logged in to their account once then any (highly unlikely) false positives of real accounts getting deleted will be an acceptable loss.

Yeah, it was aptly called thesefuckingaccounts. It did much good work to fight the incessant bot spammers and scammers, although probably just a drop in the ocean in the big picture that has become the cesspool of reddit interaction (mostly with the full compliance of the reddit administration).

When the discourse is defaulted to English, you end up with users who are either native English speakers and people using English as a lingua franca.

But that is the thing, this assumption is most likely not correct. The second half of it is (which you didn’t mention in your original comment), but the first part is largely untrue.

Your assumptions are incorrect. There never were a vast majority of American users, and English based sites doesn’t necessarily attract people who speak English as their primary language. The world knows (except for perhaps some Americans) that English is the lingua franca of our day, so English being used in a website doesn’t say anything at all about its geographical or cultural makeup.

It is a stupid argument anyway that fundamentally ignores the entire concept of the internet being global and universal. If a site is aimed at a global userbase it is mostly completely irrelevant (except for legal purposes of course) where that site was originally created or where the servers are located.