Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed?

Well sure. But that’s also because everyone else learned how to use English to communicate. So it FEELS like we’re all American. It’s a common thing in online spaces.

Maar als we allemaal terug zouden gaan naar onze eigen taal, voelt het hier een stuk minder Amerikaans.

I’ve literally had lengthy English conversations with other Dutch people online where we only figured out we were both Dutch twenty comments later :D

That's not the issue. The issue is stuff like !politics@lemmy.world which explicitly forbids world politics. It's an US politics only community.
- Wow you're right, didn't realise that was explicit before.
  Feels pretty selfish of them to do that on lemmy.world

Maybe the problem is that in Europe our news are mostly in local languages. So, if I post something I would need to translate. Or one would need to share something from France24 (English), BBC, Euronews (English), etc. But, the content is not as comprehensive as the national newspapers...

US News — Midwest.social

look inside

it's Russians

Was just permabanned from Ask Lemmy for explaining Russian and Chinese bots (bots are slaves). FYI did you know it's totally okay for Russia and China to have slaves and engage in expansionism and election interference? Slaves are TOTALLY COOL and fine if they are Russian or Chinese, even if that means Russia or China expands into new territories and enslaves new people👍 Disliking slavery and war makes me a US propaganda shill somehow, even though the US is also explicitly pro-slavery (13th amendment) and pro-warfare and is operated by a Russian asset so all US propaganda these days IS Russian propaganda
- Oh they actually specified "US"? Usually they just ramble on about the generic West.

SPRICH

DEUTSCH

USA! USA! USA!
If we can’t be number one, we’ll be last place!

These are my current muted words, got more on my mastodon account

Why do you hate iOS programming language?
wait you can mute words on lemmy? that would be cool
- I checked the main default Lemmy UI does not have filters. But my mobile Lemmy client (Eternity) do have.

There's a beautiful sweet spot between the Americans going to bed and the Germans waking up where Its not US politics but I can still understand whats being said.

It makes me laugh when Europeans makes these comments. If you want to see more European centric content... post it. Its free to do.

People write as though Americans need to stop interacting with the platform, when the solution is really to increase European engagement, which falls on them to do.

Let's be the change :-)

Hey now - I'm at least not there right now.

Source - just had espresso for €1

Yup

why is it decapitated
- Just a haircut.
- Meme template.
- Trump will probably give Alaska to Putin tomorrow.

be eurotrash

bored and want to see what the Internet is up to since I last looked 30 seconds ago

login to lemmy from my eurotrash instance

check lemmy.world for news

surprisedeurochu.eu

all this US ~~garbage~~ rubbish!

bollocks.mpeg

makes a post complaining about US posts and ignores everything else going on in Europe

am we doing this right?

Splendid!
- Jolly good!

Oh boy, wait until they find out about the World Series of anything.

"worldnews": American local news

It ain't even local news. What we have now, is anybody's guess.
- Corporate shitheel news.
- Even as an American and as a supporter of the freedom of these federated model, I have to wonder if there should be a mandated taxonomy. I don’t want to restrict anyone’s freedom of expression, but I want there to be some basic organization such that I can be an informed consumer
"worldnews": only in Ohio
It's not even "news" - a lot of that shit is just Clown-President does yet another thing that a Clown would do.
Ahhhh...I get you...like the World Series.

Sort by new and you'll find it's a bunch of Germans too. Ich liebe meine deutschen Freunde der Nacht.

Yeah, I block them as they come up, not because I have a problem with them, but because I can't speak German, and there's zero chance I'm learning German at 37.
- Why zero chance?

Sometimes my feed is like half German memes

- Lol, I just translate them and laugh along with em.
  I'm American, sorry.
- Now do it in German 😆
I deliberately subscribed to them lol
- ICH IEL
I am enjoying the riceballs much more than the Presidential idiocy randomiser.
The perks of federation.
- Nah, just block the ich_iel community. The rest is majority English

It’s also nice when they come into our country-specific subs to tell us how things are in the US, as we get so little news about the US.

I hear more news from the US than my own country. Granted, my own country's politics are people respectfully discussing policy matters while US politics is like a circus and a pro wrestling league combined, with unimaginably high stakes.
- US politics is like a circus and a pro wrestling league combined
  Don't ever look into Indian politics. It will fry your brain.
I seek out the non-US perspective. Sometimes you need someone else to show you that the Emperor has no clothes.
- Or sometimes just to have a sane conversation.
  Given practically any forward looking or quality of life topic: here it’s dominated by politics, illegal program cuts, incompetent leaders selected only for personal loyalty, breaking it for the sake of breaking it. Can’t we discuss things like adults?

Are there no other places than Europe or America?

Nope. Only America and Europe have internet, silly.
There are. There are also Africa, Asia, Australia and Antarctic.
- Well, that was more of a rhetorical question. This new European narrative is buzzing and I get it. But I think that any move forward should involve everyone who wants to co-create new rules and then play by them. Replacing America first with Europe first is just dumb.
  Greetings from a European living in Japan
- Why the hell do all these continents start with an a and ends with an a?!
  Europe needs to be renamed Auropa

Some twat of a mod removed a news article, a very popular post which I linked, because "it's internal US news". It was literally from the national broadcasting company of Finland, talking about our national Moomin characters. But no.

Lemmy is filled with Russian pretending to be Americans/Canadians/whatever

Someone made a mistake? Outrageous.
There is a nice exhibition on the Moomans at the Brooklyn Library right now, if anyone is interested! https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/celebrate-tove-jansson%E2%80%99s-central-library-dweck-20250809-0100pm
- And they removed Stinky. That's what the news was about. Since it happened in the US the mod removed it as "doesn't belong to world news, purely US internal news", despite it being reported on Yle.fi and being about most known Finnish characters.
.world is pure zionist slop. And so many communities have gathered there that i can't just instance block it.
- Ah, always catch a few self admitting Putlerites by tossing that hook out.
  So nice of you to let us know so we can tag you

Hey, some of us just want to have the biggest instance so we don't have to rely on people subscribing to things. (Australia, I have 2 accounts)

be the change you want to see in the .world

People don’t post or comment and wonder why there is no content relevant to themselves
It’s a mystery /s
- We do, it is just that Americans flood even country-specific subs to make it about them.
  We know your country sucks, you don't have to remind us every time we open the internet.

There is something so ironic about this post xD what about the other continents? I have been told they have people with internet access too xD

Well, there are a lot of penguin posts here.

I would love to see less America doom and gloom on lemmy. Why should we be the center of everything? More European- and Canada-centric posts, please.

I never downvote Canada/Europe posts and I'm always happy to see the German memes materialize to take over the front page at like 3:00pm even though I don't understand 95% of the content on ich_iel. I do kinda wish there was a larger international community on Lemmy.world.
Be there change you want to see, I believe in you. x

@Mika@sopuli.xyz !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world I'm Brazilian and oftentimes the "All" feed across the entire Lemmy ecosystem feels, in fact, like a smoothie mashup between European-specific political issues and USian-specific political issues, so, when it comes to the phenomenon that the European Fedizens feel on Lemmy, not only we feel the same, but we, Fedizens from the Global South, we feel it twice!

At least when it comes to sport, we speak one language
- Football.
- @wieson@feddit.org Well, I'm not really into sports (I'm far detached from the stereotypical Brazilian who likes to watch Corinthians x Palmeiras/Flamengo x Fluminense/etc at Fridays while they're gathering with their friends in a bar while drinking cachaça, I'm more of a nerdy and friendless person), but indeed, soccer/football is definitely part of a cultural aspect shared among European countries (especially Germany, Portugal and Spain, as far as I know) and Brazil (as well as other South American countries, such as Argentina).
Ouch.

I mean... it's a nice distraction from what's going on here in Europe. Sort of escapism if you want.

Yeah, with a few exceptions, if you are in Europe you can likely look at our news media and be like "Ha, well, at least I am not there"
- ...yet.

I wish I was in Europe. Where I could pretend that news about our downfall was for a time at a distance and would never affect me.

Oh don't worry it will affect us alright, it's just that we don't have any say in whatever happens there.
- Like any of us do? I'm just waiting for lines to be drawn where I know where I can stand.
- Not so different after all 🇪🇺💞🇱🇷!
End stage capitalism comes for all nations given enough time.
- Name one? The romans were not capitalists.

Anyone else outside US and Europe: do we exist?

Hello Europoors, from a fellow poor American.

Meownter-Strike

c’est parce que lemmy.world (et la plupart des instances) est anglophone, donc a un biais américain/britannique

moi je propose que tout le monde parle dans sa langue maternelle, pis de toute façon les logiciels de traduction sont rendus assez bon on va pouvoir se comprendre quand même

(/j)

Gute Idee. Machen wa so.
Ich hatte einige Jahre Französisch und hab sogar ungefähr gecheckt was du meinst, geil.
You joke, but I would welcome this.
Amigo, a tu español le falta mas práctica. Muy apenas se te entiende.
/s
- @InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world @carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone
  Pois é, o bagulho tá mó difícil de entender, o pessoal parece que não desembucha na hora de prosear 😅
  /s
35-years out of French class and I parsed most of that!
oui, baguette
- Omelette du fromage
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?
Je m'en fous
Ashamed American here and I assume your comment was in French, and those are the only two things I have even the vaguest clue how to pronounce in French (but I had to look up the spelling!)
Funny enough, as you suggested, I popped your text into a translator after typing out the above and using my limited second language knowledge, and it turns out, I managed to get the general gist of it without the help of a translator!
américain/britannique
C'est compréhensible et logique, bien sûr, mais <<américain/britannique>> est douloureux à voir en tant que Britannique.
ilo pi ante toki li ken ala ante e toki pona. mi toki e toki ni la seme?
~~(/j)~~
Je voudrais voir francophone « content », où sont le content francophone?
- Ils sont à jlai.lu.
Right. For example my browser did a perfectly cromulent job of translating what you just wrote into a language I can read …… unless you weren’t talking about a plot to take over the world
Opino lo mismo. Que le sufran un tantito como nos tocó sufrirle alguna vez antes de aprender inglés. 🤭

People use All?

as a person on a smaller instance, yes i like actually seeing things
- You are confusing seeing other instances with "ALL". I just don't want to see what I am not subscribed to. Curation of all this crap just makes it so much better. And focused for that matter.
I do! I need to be more diligent about seeking out new communities and subscribing to them, but I’m an ALL sort kind of person at heart, I guess.
Certainly mixes things up compared to Local.
- I just go to my subscriptions. Then sort by scaled.

It's always funny to see Europeans complain about US hegemony

If Europeans really wanted more content on .world, they would stop taking month long beach vacations and spend more of their 10 hours workdays shit posting from the company toilet
- 10 hours?. it's 8.
pourqoi?
- Because the rest of the world is tired of both of them.
  Edit: Changed you to them in case you're form Haiti.

it's the USA shitting in its own pants

Hey thats not always true! Someyimes it's someone else's!

I get the same feeling watching the Warner-Discovery owned Polish TV station "TVN".

Trump something something Washington
Bro who cares this is Europe?

Last phone booth removed in New York (a few years ago)
???

Apparently only USA speaks English and we should all be speaking German or something to show we're not American?

Nobody was complaining about the English language
Wolfenstein timeline incoming.

Ok

Its funny cause no one in the US complained about all the brexit stuff a few years ago and we just read about neighboring politics. Shits a mess here rn and its in the news. Calm down people. You'll have your mess too.
- Europeans are extremely fragile. I love my euro homies, but they are super butthurt about US world dominance.

NSF the Euros ::: spoiler spoiler

:::

I'd argue these are more unsafe for Americans than Europeans, y'all are the ones having to use the death traps.
- Just item #731 on the long list of things that we in the US do objectively worse than the rest of the world, but not badly enough to get into the news or make people want to do anything about it.
  Plus, you know, ignorance. If we polled the American public with the question "The US electrical plug design is the best in the world" I think the results would make us all have the same reaction as everything else coming out of the US: Not surprised, but still shocked and disappointed to have the ugly truth confirmed.
- Skill issue.

Isn't LW hosted in Europe?

It is.
That doesn't stop Americans signing up with the instance and then dominating all discussion there.

I've blocked quite a few very popular communities because I don't understand their language. I'm guessing they're still popular? Europe as a whole, seems to be quite popular (or it was, I've blocked them).

I've done the same with anything sports. if it's sports related, it's blocked and the one who posted it blocked as well. I want nothing to do with it.
starting to also consider anything us related too.
other languages are fine for me, I just skip past em.
- You were getting sports?
  It's not even that I really want sports as much as that I get nothing but tech, politics, Star Trek, and memes on here unless I search for it and even then it's not a lot.
- You can also filter out keywords like Trump, Elon, GOP, etc. Generally this excludes shit from their little tribal conflict but retains post that could be of interest.
Had me in the first half. Thought this was, once again, about 'Muricans. No comprendo, no parlan gut Englisch

I'm in the Middle East, but I feel the same way.

My condolences. The middle east is a friggin inferno this time of year. Visited a middle eastern country a few years ago and I did not know heat until I spent two weeks in the month of July down there.
Was so fucking relieved when nighttime came and the temperatures lowered to 38C. :'D
I legit don't know how you guys deal with that heat. I'm in awe.
- I live in western Anatolia and enjoy the Mediterranean climate. This is one of the most popular tourist destinations for Arabs and Russians. In the eastern part of Turkiye's Mediterranean region, people sometimes take aim at the sun and shoot because of the heat.

!europe@feddit.org

Sorry, I don't go to feddit.org due to their censorship of Israel-critical posts. Due to moral reasons I cannot accept (though I understand) this despite being a legal requirement.
- If I just have a quick look at !Europe and its recent top post, first thing I see is this and in the comments a banned user, who says recognizing Palestine as a state would be like giving the Hamas a win. So I don't see much censorship of Israel-critical posts there. E: I'm afraid blocking this only leads to damaging discussions by not even joining them at the first place, because now there just are fewer people who actually want to discuss something instead of just wanting to troll.
- Thanks didn’t know this, I’m blocking them too. But to be honest, also here in .world there are many people repeating zionist propaganda with no shame.

Meh, viva chile!

Sorry for hijacking your comment... VIVA LA TIERRA QUE TIENE UN PINCHE AGUILA ARRIBA DE UN NOPAL PELEANDO CON UNA SERPIENTE ALAVERGA
- Mexico is fake, did you know nobody has been able to prove the existence of mexico?
  they just invented it to sell more tacos.
- Obligatory "Que rechingue su puta madre el maldito Trompas!"
- Updoot for alaverga!

Increase your population, elect the worst leaders, ditch universal healthcare and other social supports, and your country can contest the US in potential topics for the All feed!

Well I suppose I'll take that silver lining then, given how our continents going for the most part

Si Jerboa tuviera Sprachenfiltros, je culomuerto faria uso of it, für vero. De cierto, io teria menos memes, pero also menos YouAss Notícias & Politiks

I have no idea what language is this but I can read it.

Isn't LW Dutch?

And if we're just talking about All, mine seems to be predominantly porn and Germans

Which is frankly, a pretty European combo

I'm not European but I am Canadian and I don't know if Americans realise how annoying it is that any general community like "politics" or "news" is specifically American as per the rules. I was really hoping we'd leave the US defaultism behind on Reddit
- It is so annoying and it's my biggest complaint about Lemmy. Every dang thread, the comment section is usually filled with US politics discussion even if it's a completely unrelated topic.
- I wonder if people complained about the German defaultism in 1911 or 1936.
Tell that to all the non US specific named communities created on LW, that are actually US specific according to rules.
Politics, news... All those communities are actually US specific, while having a nonUS name and being hosted on Europe. It irritates me.
Let's not bring the Netherlands into this. I can get the gist from English or German, but Dutch is right out. Weirdos.
- Ah nee we liggen eruit jongens :(

Is EU not one of the distant states of USA?

Not Europe but I can relate.

Well it's not like there's much else.

Lemmy is dominated by exactly three topics and nothing else.

AI, Linux and ... Hrm ... I donk know; communism, porn or doom for third place?
- Linux, Star Trek and Communism.

you want my several decades old stories about accidentally buying stickers with shaggy's dick on them? it wasn't in statesia but it might as well have been, let's be honest

Interesting meme. tbf, I don't even know what a true world instance/feed would even look like. Is it possible??? Would we just have a single instance where you can choose a language option (wrapper/client type of deal) and it would layer in such a way that would translate flawlessly betwixt user post / reader / commentator??? Sounds interesting 🤔

Or you just force everyone to get down and dirty and grind anki until they learn every language
- If we do this, our kids will have to solve Spanish captchas before asking their french AI girlfriends to create mandarin memes.

Yeah, I'm guilty. Am American. Migrated to Lemmy when RIF was killed by reddit.

Browse "all"? You crazy fool.

How else am I going to find entirely new topics on which to expose my ignorance?

is the USA on Saturn now?

I look at all and wonder why Europeans can't stop talking about the US.

Maybe if 'Muricans kept their shit to themselves. Alas, we must hear their news and politics, and/or be affected by it somehow, even if we steppen't in their country
- steppen't
  come again?
The loud ones seldom know wtf is going on here.
I know most do, though.
- The loudest ones probably don't care, or are annoyed by y'all, and just want you to shut up and leav'em alone already

I think they talk about the USA even more over on ML tbh, but with a difference in connotations.

That's what I'm saying months now, especially with US politics and Trump, but I'm only getting downvoted! People upvote Politics and downvotes everything else.

Rarely I see a French post so I have a look but it's usually random news. French memes are so boring, half of them are about bakery and stuff.

I think there's a place for a community called 'epiceriedumemes', a play on words denoting both variety of content (like an epicerie) and spicyness (epicer).
Then again, it also really invites more bakery memes, so idk.
(Please forgive my lack of accented characters)
The french memes on !rance@jlai.lu are more about stuff and less about bakery, but they're not that active lately.

Honestly, i won't have it any other way and im not from the us

IDK, I never browse All, basically. Funny meme, tho.

Nah, Piefed filters are great.

Agreed. When I tried Lemmy, it didn't have filters, so that was an immediate no for me. I just don't get the appeal of being fed a list, and not being able to filter out the noise.
there's two things I hate. People who are intolerant to other federated instances, and piefed users.
don't worry, every piefed user will let you know they use piefed. they're the "arch users" of federated social media.
- Oh by the way did I tell you I'm vegan.
- wow dude

Hallo

There is an "All" feed? I just subscribe to funny stuff.

My bad ¯(ツ)/¯

what? are you laying blame? or just bummed that no other nations news has a critical mass on lemmy to push stories from other nations on the all page? did you expect that to happen? or are you alleging that there is active suppression of other countries news?

Uses an English based platform

Is shocked most users are from the biggest English speaking country

English based Platform? Uuuuh, buddy the fediverse is a global project and hosted in several different countries.
- What language are we communicating in? What language is the default for this platform? What language is used for the TOS? What language do the developers use? The Fediverse is a global project, but it's also mostly English based.

Yup, though I lowkey prefer it because EU posts tend to attract more Hitlerite takes and comments. There's just something about other Europeans that make them have an elevated level of nationalism