I mean, we did invent this cursed network. It’s our job to ruin it.
I hate how anything without "world" in its name is just about the US
Submitted 10 hours ago by dch82@lemmy.zip to [deleted]
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todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 34 minutes ago
thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 27 minutes ago
One day, we will shitpost our way to freedom
NateNate60@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
To be fair, the US has the largest number of English-speakers of any country in the world. As a first language, it has five times as many native English speakers as second place (the UK). It also has one of the highest Internet penetration rates in the world, meaning most of those English-speakers are also Internet users.
The US is a single country that is three-quarters the population of the entire continent of Europe, and nearly all of its inhabitants speak English and use the Internet. So yes, if you pick a random user on an English social media page, odds are very good that person is an American. If you were to guess any random English-speaking Internet user’s nationality, “American” is the best possible guess. But go on a Spanish language forum or a French language forum and nobody will assume you’re American.
abbadon420@lemm.ee 10 hours ago
Not on Lemmy. Om Lemmy you’re 50% German, 50% American unless proven otherwise.
elvith@feddit.org 8 hours ago
𝕯𝖎𝖊𝖘𝖊 𝕶𝖔𝖒𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖆𝖗𝖘𝖊𝖐𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝖎𝖘𝖙 𝖓𝖚𝖓 𝖟𝖚 𝕱𝖚𝖊𝖓𝖋𝖟𝖎𝖌 𝕻𝖗𝖔𝖟𝖊𝖓𝖙 𝕰𝖎𝖌𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖚𝖒 𝖉𝖊𝖗 𝕭𝖚𝖓𝖉𝖊𝖘𝖗𝖊𝖕𝖚𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖐 𝕯𝖊𝖚𝖙𝖘𝖈𝖍𝖑𝖆𝖓𝖉!
5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
There was a fair amount of French language posts too, not sure how much quality and engagement they have.
stoy@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
I have boocked 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.
weker01@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Tja, da verpasst du was…
Just learn German. Just do it
Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Well, then have some proof:
G E K O L O N I S E E R D
abbadon420@lemm.ee 3 minutes ago
Als een warm bad
stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
zeg makker
lvxferre@mander.xyz 8 hours ago
Du irrst dich, Brudi - niemand spricht Deutsch hier.
OpenStars@discuss.online 4 hours ago
Da hast du wohl recht, ich habe noch kein einziges “du hast mich” bis jetzt (Verwenden Sie für den zitierten Teil nicht Google Translate)
modifier@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
Ja genau.
almar_quigley@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Just like Reddit was back in the day.
SassyRamen@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Alter… das kann nicht sein
abbadon420@lemm.ee 8 hours ago
Ja ech waar, ik maak geen gein
Donebrach@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Haha. Like anyone lives outside the US
slickgoat@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I’m from Australia and don’t mind engagement with the (mostly) US content.
Let’s face it, the US election is the most interesting event on the planet anyway.
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 57 minutes ago
oh god, no
I find a squirrel climbing a tree a more interesting event
stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
also one of the most concerning ones
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 hours ago
My favorite answer when internet Nazis asked “How could the Nazis have won?” used to be “Be America.”
It’s not as funny anymore. They listened.
poo@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I’ve heard it called “US Defaultism” 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 isn’t.
200ok@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Imagine if different fonts represented different accents.
𝓗𝓸𝔀 𝓭𝓸 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓭𝓸𝓸𝓸𝓸𝓸𝓸𝓸?
TootSweet@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I do this sometimes, and I hate when I catch myself doing it.
disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I’ve been guilty of that- commenting before checking what community the post was in. Thankfully, I’ve 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.
OpenStars@discuss.online 4 hours ago
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.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
…Anything written in English, and you can usually filter that even more by just looking for people using too many U’s.
dch82@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
people using too many U’s
You mean people using British spellings right?
jballs@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
One day if we are brave, we will get rid of the U in a lot of British words like color and armor, but by God we will keep the British U in the word glamour!
Ziglin@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I think you’ll find most of the time the British use precisely the number U’s they intend to though typos may afflict even the best.
RandomVideos@programming.dev 7 hours ago
What if i use “color”, " gouvernment", “dialogue”, " humor", “armor”, " and “honour”
Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 hours ago
I see you like to keep 'em guessing.
OpenStars@discuss.online 4 hours ago
Finally your edumacashun is compleute, go fourth and enjouy your freedumb! 😜
lvxferre@mander.xyz 9 hours ago
And when you do use those ⟨U⟩ (I do), people assume that you know what’s going on in the UK (I don’t.).
OpenStars@discuss.online 10 hours ago
Tbf it seemed to make more sense for the likes of Reddit, Facebook, etc. Similarly if I go to a Chinese forum I would not assume that everyone there was from the USA.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Maybe you should try posting more often then ;)
SPRUNT@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I hear you and am guilty of it myself. I feel like it’s due to the anonymous nature of the internet. I think everyone immediately falls into the category of “peer” before putting a touch more thought into who the actual person (bot/ai) is that wrote the reply. Add that to the fact that most Americans see themselves (as a country) as the king of the world.
Maybe you can try typing with an accent, but I think that’d probably just be seen as a racist American.
lovely_reader@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
As someone outside the U.S., what is your default persona for anonymous/pseudonymous users until you know more about them? Just curious. Like, if you don’t have any information about them, do you read the words in the voice of a person just like you?
Decoy321@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I default to everyone sounding like Macho Man Randy Savage.
YeetPics@mander.xyz 9 hours ago
There are tons of tankie subs where you can masturbate to false expectations of the planet and openly hate people who you’ve never met before, check it out!
HK65@sopuli.xyz 9 hours ago
ironically, tankies usually fall very deep into US defaultism, since everything everywhere is always the fault of the US
dch82@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
Oh yes I forgot I blocked Lemmy.ml, no russian representation
credo@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
This is lemmy.world, you would have to join lemmy.{country} for lands beyond the fruited plains and purple mountains majesty.
AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 8 hours ago
Which nation is lemmy.world hosted in again?
I’ll never understand people’s obsession over complaining about Americans on American websites.
Sop@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 hour ago
The word world is literally in the name… When I joined lemmy I started there because I assumed it would be a general instance. It’s like worldnews where 90% of posts are US politics. Also, it’s not an obsession, most times it comes up it’s just a joke (like this meme).
RandomVideos@programming.dev 6 hours ago
Lemmy.dbzer0.com lemmy.blahaj.zone discuss.tchncs.de sopuli.xyz infosec.pub lemmy.ml midwest.social slrpnk.net mander.xyz are all not hosted in USA(according to fedidb.org)
Also, why would it matter in what country an instance is hosted in? I cant just assume everyone on midwest.social is german because the instance is hosted in germany
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
If any instance uses anything akin to cloudflare, Google, a cloud provider or a CDN then this question makes no sense, not that it ever made any sense because why would it matter where a website is hosted if it’s equally accessible globally? It’s not like the internet is some sort of local US thing lmfao.
Ziglin@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Many websites that are international are hosted in only one country.
JoYo@lemmy.ml 7 hours ago
i live in DC and we get tagged for everything world politics.
forgive for not caring if fvey countries get lumped into uspol.
Juice@midwest.social 10 hours ago
Jimmy Eat USA
buttPickle@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Bleed Earthlings
RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Aren’t the majority of English speakers from the US?
HK65@sopuli.xyz 9 hours ago
I’d just like to mention that plenty of ESL users speak English more than their native, and that the country with the most people who use English for interacting with the Internet, it’s probably India. Indians communicate to a lot of their compatriots in English, since they are also an ex-British colony, and have a large variety of native languages.
Whorehoarder@lemmynsfw.com 7 hours ago
That sounds like America’s problem. Big portion of western eu, especially non-boomer and non-french, comprehend English
verywell, so I dunno why you’d just dismiss it in a post about us-defaultism when almost everything is text basedRoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
That was the joke.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 9 hours ago
Ziglin@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
What’s your definition of first/second language if you grow up bilingual?
The majority of English speakers aren’t from the US, though the US does have the most English speakers. Important distinction to make!
callouscomic@lemm.ee 10 hours ago
The SMX “World Championship” just finished. It only takes place in the US.
occultist8128@infosec.pub 9 hours ago
as a person that came from 3rd world country, i relate T_T
Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 10 hours ago
You mean anything with
outworld in its name?yesman@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
This meme is essentially Al-Qaeda’s motive for doing 9/11.
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 5 minutes ago
I completely understand the sentiment.
I also understand the sentiment that the internet is effectively a US invention dating back at least to ARPAnet.
I guess what I’m suggesting is: can’t we all just get along? At least we can now all communicate with each other.