I thought it’d be nice for the rest of the world to have a de-america’d instance where there’s no discussion of america, certainly no american politics, and no americans are allowed via IP block.
But I think to do that effectively, you’d probably have to defederate from most of the rest of lemmy, and then you’ve lost most of the federation benefits of being a lemmy instance. However I’m only vaguely familiar with how all of the connections work so maybe someone can correct me.
It’s more bigotry than it is general xenophobia.
Sorry to be pedantic here, but
Xenophobia is a specific form of bigotry that targets people based on national origin or perceived foreignness (e.g., “foreigners,” “Germans,” “Americans”).
And
Bigotry is the umbrella term for prejudice or intolerance toward a group (race, religion, nationality, etc.).
OP Saying “no people from the USA allowed” is therefore xenophobic specifically, and bigoted in the general sense.
Ergo, it is more xenophobia than it is bigotry.