Google News is the worst. If you use it to get a quick snapshot of what’s going on in the world you won’t find anything outside America. You have to change your region to Germany or Britain to get actual results.
Comment on [OC] My feeling as European reading news on Lemmy/Reddit
BaroqueInMind@kbin.social 1 year ago
I love how most of the Lemmy instances are hosted on European servers, yet Europeans still don't have enough population, money, or influence to change the status quo.
US politics does not belong in World News, yet the upvote counts say otherwise. Europeans need to step up the game and encourage more other Europeans to join Kbin/Lemmy. This will never be fixed without the numbers.
NathanielThomas@lemmy.world 1 year ago
hibsen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Google tells me there’s like 332 million people in the US and like 750 million in Europe. I get that they’re different countries, but different states here might as well be.
Are there posts Europeans make that I’m just not seeing (beyond complaints like this one), or is there something else that keeps them from posting and upvoting the content they apparently want to see in places like world news?
Damage@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
Europeans tend to prefer discussing local matters in their own language
ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 1 year ago
Different states are not like literally different countries.
nl_the_shadow@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Exactly, different states still have their country as common ground. Most Europeans identify with their nationality first, and as a European second.