Sincerely, your literally poorest europoor.
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I hope one day they get to visit our glorious nation and get a taste of real freedom.
I am not going to take a plane across the ocean, just to get imprisoned, tortured and deported.
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Lemmy has been one of the best places online for toning down the American emphasis (although I think my blacklist keywords filters help a lot with that.... Highly recommended).
Lemmy has better European/Australian representation, but there isn't much Asian or African representation though.
Reddit would allow you to completely ignore USA centric content since it was so big
If you ban all communities on lemmy that are related to the USA or could have posts related to the USA, there would be less than a post a day
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Lemmy has been one of the best places online for toning down the American emphasis (although I think my blacklist keywords filters help a lot with that.... Highly recommended).
Lemmy has better European/Australian representation, but there isn't much Asian or African representation though.
Either you've blocked half the platform or you're joking because I constantly fight with others for posting american politics in general communities.
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Blaming America is relevant. Whining about their domestic politics when the part guy sent as much bullet as the new one is inhumane and tone deaf. Real people are fucking dying
When the new guy is planning some ethnic cleansing, is not tone deaf.
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Either you've blocked half the platform or you're joking because I constantly fight with others for posting american politics in general communities.
Thank you for your service!
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When the new guy is planning some ethnic cleansing, is not tone deaf.
Yeah whereas the old guy didn't planned to send all those bombs, it was just an oopsie /s
Fucking genocide apologist scum
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Unfortunately America is relevant to most of the world rn. Wish it wasn't though
My grocery store has an icon on products that have tariffs on it, aka u.s. only. With maple leaf symbols on stuff made, or packaged in canada.
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Either you've blocked half the platform or you're joking because I constantly fight with others for posting american politics in general communities.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]It's the first thing. Glad to see it working. I do still have to ignore a lot of USA-centric political memes and it annoys me that political content doesn't stay in the designated political areas.
I welcome suggestions for active communities that are non-political.
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Either you've blocked half the platform or you're joking because I constantly fight with others for posting american politics in general communities.
Well, someone bringing USA into conversation was absolutely expected since it was news community.
The reason I got butthurt and made this post is because how it was brought into conversation, like you know, some "wise observer" perspective, but from someone who couldn't be really characterized as wise.
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Unfortunately America is relevant to most of the world rn. Wish it wasn't though
It's relevant, yes, but not the center of every single topic or event they is happening or exists anywhere.
Go online however and you'd think it were.
The bigger problem is their assumption that their country is the "default" country. Discussing something highly specific to your nation, or posting a news article covering a topic that is only relevant within your nation? You need to provide the context of what country you're talking about, otherwise people might be confused or waste their time reading something irrelevant to them. Over and over.
... unless it's about the USA of course, then you don't need to give any context at all because of course the only people they use the Internet are Americans, and obviously the only country worth talking about is the
US of A! This is highly encouraged in places like Reddit, where communities like /r/news or /r/politics are actually local national subreddits just for the USA, but because they're special little darlings they use the format that should be reserved for all news and political discussion, rather than a more appropriate and descriptive title like /r/usanews or /r/usapolitics, which would actually be... you know... descriptive and helpful.
That's not even mentioning the number of times some random person has used code/abbreviation to describe where they are to lend context to a conversation, but failed to take into account that people outside of your country don't know your local regional internal place names.
Oh, you're from ML? OH? TA? Great, that provides precisely zero information because those aren't country name abbreviations. Oh, you're from London which is all the context you think I need? Okay, I know Lo...oh, London.... Texas?
️So many wonderful people in the USA, so many fantastic people who don't have any of the traits I've described, I just wish the ones strutting around acting like they're the only country in the world and on the internet would open their eyes to how that sort of toxic personality trait looks to, and affects others
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Thank you for drawing my attention. How about you bask in the glory of our democracy and freedom? Learn a thing or two. Buy a gun. For
SuperearthAMERICA!!!stabs squid with flagpole
Ha! I think that enemy got....the point!
stabs squid with flagpole
Ha! I think that enemy g
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Yeah whereas the old guy didn't planned to send all those bombs, it was just an oopsie /s
Fucking genocide apologist scum
Do you know what ethnic cleansing is?
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Included American pop culture character to draw attention of Americans.
Then don't be such an enabler europoor.
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I am not going to take a plane across the ocean, just to get imprisoned, tortured and deported.
Such is the price of greatness.
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Included American pop culture character to draw attention of Americans.
im sure theres plenty of non English speaking communities that never mention anything US related for you to browse
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Blaming America is relevant. Whining about their domestic politics when the part guy sent as much bullet as the new one is inhumane and tone deaf. Real people are fucking dying
Youre a little moron piss baby, cry.
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Such is the price of greatness.
Freedom isn’t free.
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Sick, I live in the middle of the continent as well! I can also drive 1 mile in each direction and still be in the united states, so must live super close! But I'm a little confused why you use miles? Everybody I know always uses km here in Germany
Okay dumbass, nobody is throwing a tantrum over units other than you. Why are you so pathetic, would you like to tell us?
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I think reddit was more diverse, many local communities, language specific communities, etc.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Yeah, but enshittification started getting to Reddit and it was a wise choice to not stay to see how it goes further, as it will become more and more corporatized.
With Lemmy my problems are only with opinions developers have (spoiler: pro-Russian tankie transphobes). But idea of Lemmy and work put into it still deserve respect.
So as for now I just hope my compatriots will catch up on Fediverse eventually (Mastodon is already quite popular).
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Yeah, but enshittification started getting to Reddit and it was a wise choice to not stay to see how it goes further, as it will become more and more corporatized.
With Lemmy my problems are only with opinions developers have (spoiler: pro-Russian tankie transphobes). But idea of Lemmy and work put into it still deserve respect.
So as for now I just hope my compatriots will catch up on Fediverse eventually (Mastodon is already quite popular).
Sure, I was just commenting about the us-centricity of lemmy.
