a lot of instances are really just Redditors who refuse to use reddit. this is especially apparent with the USA defaultism. the best thing you can do is curate the feed with blocked communities and only stay in subscribed, but as we can see here it even bleeds into totally unrelated shit sometimes, so.
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where_am_i@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Even the fediverse community is now about US elections.
I’ll tell you what your “fediverse” is all about: USA. And mainly Trump vs Harris.
It’s like nothing else exist. fediverse my @$$.
FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 3 months ago
It’s like the domino theory. If the US falls to fascism, so will the rest of the western world!
Aqarius@lemmy.world 3 months ago
“Mr. President, we cannot alOow a tankie gap!!!”
sudneo@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I think this is a very real observation, with not much that can be done.
The best non-USA people can do is to participate and share/produce content which is not US-centric (ideally in their native language too). Unfortunately many communities, even non political ones, often still default to a US-centric perspective and culture, which makes it hard for people to participate.
It’s hard to dance around it, more people are needed.
Blaze@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
!yurop@lemm.ee is quite active, on top of the languages communities like !dach@feddit.org or !forumlibre@jlai.lu
MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
!europe!europe@feddit.org comes to mind as a somewhat political community, with a non US focus. It however has a lot of Germans in it.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The US is one of the largest english speaking communities so its maybe not too wild to expect this. There is a significant amount of japanese mastodon servers and german lemmy servers
tuoret@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
Yeah, I’ve blocked every US-specific community I’ve seen on the everything feed but it keeps spilling into seemingly unrelated communities too. And it’s only going to get worse.
deFrisselle@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Welcome to Enshitification
Emperor@feddit.uk 3 months ago
The Fediverse is a big beast with a lot of local instances that have nothing to do with US politics (I may be biased as I do help run one - see, eg, !uk_politics@feddit.uk) and the majority of topic specific communities are less US-focused. Hell, you even have !noyank@lemmy.ml. So you can change things around by expanding and/or pruning your yiur subs.
pyre@lemmy.world 3 months ago
ikr, why do people care? it’s not like us politics affects anyone outside the us. this is one country that notoriously doesn’t meddle in any other country’s matters one bit, and has no armed forces or even political influence outside its own borders.