Not on Lemmy. Om Lemmy youβre 50% German, 50% American unless proven otherwise.
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I have blocked sooooo many german communities and several german instances.
I browse all to get as much new content as possible.
But I have to block a shitload of stuff I am not interested in seeing.
Γh, du kan vΓ€l lika gΓ€rna lΓ€ra dig Svenska, det blir enklare fΓΆr oss bΓ₯da! (:
Da hast du wohl recht, ich habe noch kein einziges βdu hast michβ bis jetzt (Verwenden Sie fΓΌr den zitierten Teil nicht Google Translate)
ich habe noch kein einziges βdu hast michβ bis jetzt
Auch weil alles Liebe in Lemmy ist, ja? /witz
If I was using a website called βFaceblokeβ that was well known to have been made and ran in the UK, Iβd assume everyone on it was British.
Ah, yes! The 3 billion Americans on Facebook!
And why would you make that assumption? The internet has no borders, so it doesnβt really matter where or by whom something is made. Especially if the language is English, which has somewhere between 1.5 and 2 billion speakers worldwide.
the default country
I donβt care where yβall are from as long as youβre not a dumbass dickhead.
Iβve heard it called βUS Defaultismβ where most Americans online seem to assume that everyone they interact with is from their country and all US news is considered significant even when it really isnβt.
Counterpoint: I rarely see non-US news posted. I do from time to time here on Lemmy, but itβs very rare.
I might just be in the wrong communities though.
Thatβs because most of the world countries keep internal news, internal, but youβre right tho, not enough representation makes people think like that
I do lean moee towards us defaultism being the case as other country news does get posted but has zero to none interaction because the us posts threads are getting so much more activity.
The community news@lemmy.world used to have it in their rules, that it must be US news, same as on the old site. I just looked, and itβs no longer a rule on lemmy.world
Iβve been guilty of that- commenting before checking what community the post was in. Thankfully, Iβve found that most people outside of the US prefer gentle correction. Unfortunately, I doubt the average person from the US would show the same courtesy if the roles were reversed.
I find that it correlates more with education status than nationality⦠but therefore it surely is more rare among the set of average Americans who have access to the internet than globally.
