Why is Lemmy so US-centric? The largest instances are in Europe, aren't they? So why does it have to be US news trolling as if it were Reddit?
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It's possible that most English-speakers on this planet are in the US.
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My guess is because the US is a dumpster fire that is exploding right now, and let’s be honest: who doesn’t slow down to “rubber neck” a dumpster fire when they’re passing by?
Once we’ve completely fallen on our asses, and worn ourselves out crying like little babies, I’m sure the noise will subside.
Until then you probably want to get a lemmy client that supports keyword filtering and you can at least lessen the noise a little.
~As an American, I don’t know if “rubber necking” is a known colloquialism outside of the US. So, if you don’t know, it’s a term used to refer to the assholes on the road who slow down to gawk at traffic accidents as if they’ve never seen one before; very, very annoying.~
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Maybe it has to do with your language settings as well? I imagine filtering out English will make your experience much less US-centric.
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Is it? Or is it a question of which communities you're looking at? Because mine isn't.
Yes, you can set that up. But most news communities such as /world, /worldnews, /news, and others are very US-centric. I wonder why that has to be the case when it should be clear to everyone by now that the White House is employing troll tactics.
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Well mine is, but only because I blocked a lot of German and French language instances, because I don't speak those languages, and therefore don't see that stuff anymore. Before that like half of the posts I saw were in German.
Also I still see plenty of Canadian and UK topics all over the place.
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Well mine is, but only because I blocked a lot of German and French language instances, because I don't speak those languages, and therefore don't see that stuff anymore. Before that like half of the posts I saw were in German.
Also I still see plenty of Canadian and UK topics all over the place.
But you are missing out on the Stör memes, and all the ich_iel posts.
I will confess that I don't get the ones about German politicians.
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It's possible that most English-speakers on this planet are in the US.
Maybe native speakers or English only speakers. But over a billion people speak English (approx, per Wikipedia), and US only accounts for a fraction of that.
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From around 7PM - 9PM HST, lemmy is almost 100% German.
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Maybe native speakers or English only speakers. But over a billion people speak English (approx, per Wikipedia), and US only accounts for a fraction of that.
Even then, though, the US accounting for 1/5 of all English speakers, and the majority of native (L1) English speakers, is notable all the same.
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People are drawn to trainwrecks. The weirdest part of living outside the US is the number of people who still obsess over the US.
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Maybe native speakers or English only speakers. But over a billion people speak English (approx, per Wikipedia), and US only accounts for a fraction of that.
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English speakers will talk about the UK/Canada/Austrailia/etc. once one of them are on fire/falling into fascism as well.
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Because Americans are louder and tend not to confine their activities to the country-specific forums
wrote last edited by [email protected]As an American, I can say one of our defining characteristics is we believe we belong everywhere on the Internet. There is no space that we are embarrassed to enter. Reminds me of the Americans showing up on Chinese social media and acting like they owned the place.
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Maybe because the internet was invented by the US, controlled by the US until rather recently, and has the most people who actively use it that speak English? China firewalls their nation, and you don't speak Indian...so....yeah...
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Please. Let it diversify.
As a US dweller, I'd love it to be anything but US centric.
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From around 7PM - 9PM HST, lemmy is almost 100% German.
No idea where/what time HST is, but I agree, there is a "German time", not so for French, Italian, ...
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No idea where/what time HST is, but I agree, there is a "German time", not so for French, Italian, ...
wrote last edited by [email protected]https://www.timetemperature.com/tzhi/honolulu.shtml
My read is that this is about when Germans are waking up, so there are many people posting whatever the new's of the day is. It just so happens that it corresponds with the time of the evening after work where I might browse lemmy while watching a show.
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People are drawn to trainwrecks. The weirdest part of living outside the US is the number of people who still obsess over the US.
The weirdest part of living outside the US is the number of people who still obsess over the US.
Do you honestly find it weird that people all over the world obsess over the one country in the world that constantly sends its enormous military all over the world?
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The US population is grouped together in one giant pool instead of spread out by state like Europe is grouped by individual country. We focus on national news that affects the large population, and stuff that happens on other states becsuse of the shared identity, while European countries don't have the same kind of European Union shenanigans that affect all of Europe and mostly post about country level stuff. Communities in languages other than English also tend to be posted in separate communites further separating their discussions from the general purpose communities.
We are also louder, which also contributes, but that is not as big of a deal as the sheer numbers.
plus, you know, inheritors of the British empire - practically an unbroken chain of hegemonic anglophones who refuse to learn another language
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plus, you know, inheritors of the British empire - practically an unbroken chain of hegemonic anglophones who refuse to learn another language
wrote last edited by [email protected]While a huge portion of the population chooses not to become fluent in a language, because nearly everything within hundreds of miles of where they live uses the same language by default, we still provide opportunities to learn languages and in some areas people are commonly bilingual.
It can be hard to maintain a language without frequent exposure. I had some classes in Spanish and French, but without a large population that speaks either language in my area I just forgot it over time. Moved tons place where we do have a lot of people who speak Spanish and English, but since I'm not part of their community my exposure is limited to the occasional festival or signage as nobody needs me to impose my attempt to learn their language on them.
It isn't all about refusal, it is mostly lack of exposure.
