1y ago

lemmy.rule

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uses American stuff
Upset there are Americans there
- I don't use stuff from that continent (in fact, as far as I know, Kbin is European, and lemmy.world is even based in Europe). But when I browse through all, majority of content is related to US somehow, and majority of comments are related to something in the US too.
  I can block communities and instances, obviously, but generic communities are being pushed to US culture somehow, despite having allegedly users from other countries and continents. And there is no filter, unfortunately, so either block or get bombarded by US-related stuff
  
  Would it be because most EU countries are using other sites that are in their own language? Idk why I'd visit a predominantly English site if my English wasn't super proficient. That would just leave the US, UK, and Aus mostly, and the US dwarfs those by quite a bit.
- https://wallpapercave.com/wp/wp5338276.jpg

Yes because this community definitely doesn't have a huge bias towards US culture.
- Makes you wonder if the demographics are skewed towards Americans. Or maybe others are not that vocal about their local culture?
  Any fellow Europeans here?
  
  Actually when I moved here from Reddit I really enjoyed that it seemed like the perspectives weren't so US-focused. I don't know if there were really more non-US folks or if maybe the more left leaning userbase meant I noticed it less. But now I feel like I've been in quite a few threads where US dominance was in full force, like the one asking why weed is illegal but alcohol not, or anything that mentions gun control.
  
  There are more lemmy servers hosted in the U.S. than any other country, although they certainly don't make up the majority. IDK about users though.
  
  Yes

I don't get it. Are you saying that lemmy.world has too many US users? Why would that matter?
- As an American:
  I do try to avoid spaces with an over abundance of other Americans. Largely because I get way more than my share of American news pushed at me on all fronts every day and those people just tend to echo what CNN/Fox has to say about something over and over.
  But to other nationalities, any space with a US presence is regarded as "CIA controlled propaganda and those Americans are all slaves of their rich overlords and their capitalism is the singular reason the world is shit"
  Believe it or not, American media exists on a spectrum too, just like anywhere. Ironically, the people who spout this uninformed nonsense remind me of the lowest-common-denominator types of Americans who are afraid of Chinese immigrants and healthcare because "communism".
  
  I don't regard any place with the US presence as a CIA clubhouse, but you must admit, The Default Country for many on the internet, here included, is the US. So yeah, most of the news are the US news
- Because it means that contributions are always leaning towards American viewpoints. From politics being mainly concerned with US politics to comments being written from an English speaking, US perspective.
  Would you join an instance with a dominating presence of Russian or Chinese or Brazilian or South African or Iranian users? I hope you can see why it matters now.
  
  would you join an instance
  If I could read those languages yes probably.
  
  So, you're saying that US users on lemmy.world are keeping other nationalities from talking about issues or viewpoints relevant to them?

Be the change you want to see in lemmy.world.
Abraham Lincoln or smth I dunno
- I already do, not every day but sometimes, when I see something worth to be published. You can check inside my profile.

…no?
- I mean they're not wrong, but it does seem silly to complain about American politics on a website where most people are American.
  They could block instances/users posting content they don't want to see, or browse by "subscribed."
  
  I've personally considered blocking .world, but I like a lot of the users there and so I'd miss seeing them around. Like stamets and hamid, for instance (no pun intended)
  
  Well, I personally didn't notice anything like that tbh, or at least not more than on other social media platforms like Reddit

You should have called them CIA plants, or Feds. That would have really showed them.
- I wanted to see what I would get with the prompt "CIA Plants"
  
  Omg it was the grassy knoll all along wasn't it
  
  Stylish
  
  Ai art bad

That's just US Election Season
Gringos tend to vore every conversation when that time rolls around.
Let them get it out their systems. They are in pain.
I'm from Latin America, btw.

No I'm pretty sure that's exclusively 196 during this election season for some reason
- for some reason
  Perhaps the impending chance of us living with 4 more years of someone who openly wants to violently overthrow our government and be a dictator?
  
  Well most of the political posts I've been seeing here have ranged from "Biden isn't any better" to literal Soviet propaganda.
- for some reason