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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Alright lemme just block every community brb
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.
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... -
Have you posted articles and discussions relevant to your country?
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.
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.
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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
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
No moose mentioned?
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Because the Europeans post in their weirdo languages.
É raro mas acontece.
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Keywords, friend. Keywords.
Ok then let me block the whole English dictionary then
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Have you posted articles and discussions relevant to your country?
Can you parrot anything else?
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French is fun!
Well to read at least. I can't speak it worth a damn. Sentences are like a single word.
You mean frrench?
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Do you agree that Israel should stop receiving any and all US aid and end the genocide on Palestine?
How the fuck is that related to this thread?
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I am Canadian at heart
Does maple syrup run through your veins?
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Because Americans take over platforms and force them to obey American rules while pretending to be neutral. For example, LemmyWorld touts itself as an instance for everyone which is hosted in Europe.
But its /News and /Politics community discourse is forcefully limited to the USA. This is incredibly weird if you stop to think about it for a second.
Imagine if .ml had a /Politics community where the only allowed politics was China. And an unreliable biased Chinese website was to grade sources a credible, instead of the unreliable American MBFC website. Nobody would think that would be normal. But do the same thing for America and everything is fine.
I think there was a conscious effort to emulate reddit subs, which is daft but that's what happened.
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I assume its because people love watching train wrecks.
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Donald Trump and the current iteration of america are train wrecks. It's hard to look away no matter where you are in the world. Super power countries don't fall every day.
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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.
Filtering out English is a bad idea because 80% (no quote just an estimation) of the content here is written in English.
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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.
Nah, bullshit. Most news networks and media houses have marketing teams to spread their news links and artificially "boost" their links all over the place. Lemmy has these folks who pretend to be normal users but tend to only post news from specific websites or post tangetial links and then add in their own. And, they get to the top fast.
It's social media marketing 101.
Normal lemmy users who actually got here to escape the vote manipulations or whatever in other networks usually post archived links, summary, or even the whole article in the text. You don't normally see that with marketing accounts. And I've seen that's grow ever more as the community gets larger.
But continue to think the US is the center of the universe and there's no manipulation or marketing going on at all. It's working out so well for it, they made a TV reality star president, TWICE.
But you do you on your axis.
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More budget for propaganda.
Except the propaganda isn't exactly favorable for the US. Almost as though there is a concerted and consistent effort to discredit the US.
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Not in my experience. If you don't want to see politics there is a robust blocking system on Connect (and other apps I'm sure) that you can use.
This would be less of a problem if Lemmy moderators actually gave a fuck anout the quality of their communities.
