though, as you know/ we are everywhere

True enough. I joined a British instance for reasons that seemed good enough to me at the time I signed up. I kind of pity any Canadian who decided to sign up with an American instance somewhere back in the depths of time, though—I don't think Trump will manage to put a tariff on electrons, but I wouldn't put it past him to try, and the last I checked, migration of accounts between servers in the Fediverse was still kind of half-baked.

Users without the suffix (if your client omits local addressing) are on lemmy.ca

Just FYI, I don't believe that this is strictly true. In most cases it is, but I've seen many users outside my instance without the suffix. I believe that if someone edits their display name it drops the suffix, or at least it used to. Maybe that's been corrected?

Hi, I use sh.itjust.works, another fantastic Canadian instance, and I'm British! Big love!