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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 would already be nice if posts specified they are about the USA instead of just blurping out something about "the civil war" for example instead of "the USA civil war".

    One can dream!

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    Do you agree that Israel should stop receiving any and all US aid and end the genocide on Palestine?

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      The good news is German has consistent pronunciation so it's easy to learn that part

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      Until the loan words come out.

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      • P [email protected]

        Probably eisbrecher, honestly. Because it started coming up on a Rammstein playlist. Which is cool because it gives me the base for ice and breaker, making it that much easier for me to pick up on other words in context, that I may have missed otherwise. Even moreso because I read so much climate news, which is important to me as the US dwindles in climate research, I hope to learn more French and German. I just wish I could learn my grandparents native languages of Norwegian and swedish. Those are much harder for me, even though I've actually put effort into those. It just doesn't come as easy to me.

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        Eisbrecher meaning a way of meeting other people easier or the type of ship? 🙂

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          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-speaking_population

          You do the Jaguar math.

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            it would be so weird of .ml only allowed one perspective

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            Would be even weirder if people started going into meltdown mode every time a non-mbfc approved site was posted on .ml. Screaming at the .ml mods to delete the post and constantly linking their Zionist-ran mbfc site because they have been indoctrinated into using it.

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            • A [email protected]

              Have you posted articles and discussions relevant to your country?

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              Yes plenty. I didn't say "I do not live in the US."

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              • dandomrude@lemmy.worldD [email protected]

                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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                on lemmy.world these are all us news. not unlike reddit.

                pay other inatances a visit and see if you like anything else better.

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                • L [email protected]

                  I need to change that. From now on I'll loudly announce I'm from Earth

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                  Or whisper it like a secret for extra lols.

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                    Because the Europeans post in their weirdo languages.

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                    Nee hoor, dat doen wij helemaal niet!

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                    • daggermoon@lemmy.worldD [email protected]

                      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-speaking_population

                      You do the Jaguar math.

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                      To be fair, rest of countries added up have more English-speaking population than the US. Of you would have to also account for the internet access and general social media presence.

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                        Or whisper it like a secret for extra lols.

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                        Whispers are you from Earth too?

                        which planet are you from?

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                        • B [email protected]

                          Alright lemme just block every community brb

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                          Keywords, friend. Keywords.

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                            Because the USA has so much military and economic power that it is the axis about which the English-speaking world turns. And it is making wildly stupid choices in its foreign and domestic policies, which gets peoples attention from both potential impacts to their own countries and out of sheer horror and exasperation. Finally, it has a huge population relative to any other english speaking nation, and its citizens will tend to vote as a bloc about things they find interesting. And the things they find interesting will typically involve their own nation. Germans, for example, will do this too - but there are far fewer germans than americans, so in an open market, American news gets the most votes from its citizens and ends up on top of the stack.

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                            This is what I wanted to suggest. There's just a lot of news happening in America right now, and because of America's position in the western world that news has widespread implications.

                            Politics in America are also very dramatic, so the stories might drive more engagement from people into that sort of thing.

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                              Most likely English-centric.
                              For me, english is my internet language anyway so...

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                                Have you posted articles and discussions relevant to your country?

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                                In their relevant communities yes. But not in a world news.

                                People from around the globe don't need to hear about the latest epstein fart.

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                                  Because it's the most newsworthy country at the moment. The most powerful country in the world is crashing before your eyes, whilst the rest of the world mostly continues on as it was. Yeah, some noteworthy things are happening all over the world, but that's not as dramatic as the fall of arguably the most hated country in the world. And everything from genocide to climate change, disease and general suffering can be at least tangentially related to the disaster that is the US and it's administration. I mean, what noteworthy things are there to chide Sweden for? Anything? Is it comparible to the horrors and despair that the US is causing? There's your answer.

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                                  what noteworthy things are there to chide Sweden for?

                                  They're been losing Social Bastion points for a while now and are turning a hard right towards Aryan Master-race ethos.
                                  Most of europe actually.

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                                    I don’t know for other countries, but I read French news in French. So the French instance is way smaller than the English speaking ones

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                                    Would that be J Lai Lu? And how would you make it show more often in your feed and us news show less often? That's the kind of balance I'd like to get, useful us news about once a day and useful French news about once a day, instead of 10x of same Epstein news and 0 French/whatever

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                                      For Norway a good chunk of the news on our state-run newspaper is related to the US as well. Especially the recent Epstein stuff

                                      Other than that it's Israel/Palestine, Ukraine/Russia, some other international news, sports, the current heatwave, a little about nature, a little about new infrastructure projects, a news story about hate speech, and a couple other misc stories

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                                      No moose mentioned?

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                                        Because the Europeans post in their weirdo languages.

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                                        É raro mas acontece.

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                                          Keywords, friend. Keywords.

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                                          Ok then let me block the whole English dictionary then

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