Submitted 9 months ago by mgnome@piefed.social to [deleted]
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Included American pop culture character to draw attention of Americans.
Lemmy has been one of the best places online for toning down the American emphasis (although I think my blacklist keywords filters help a lot with that… Highly recommended).
Lemmy has better European/Australian representation, but there isn’t much Asian or African representation though.
language barriers are a thing.
Either you've blocked half the platform or you're joking because I constantly fight with others for posting american politics in general communities.
It’s the first thing. Glad to see it working. I do still have to ignore a lot of USA-centric political memes and it annoys me that political content doesn’t stay in the designated political areas.
Thank you for your service!
Reddit would allow you to completely ignore USA centric content since it was so big
If you ban all communities on lemmy that are related to the USA or could have posts related to the USA, there would be less than a post a day
I think reddit was more diverse, many local communities, language specific communities, etc.
Honestly no, I think it’s worse here. I blocked so many communities because they’re just about US politics, but that stuff is still everywhere, even in generic meme communities.
It’s not even Americans talking about American politics either haha
Must be my filter list then… 20p blocked communities (mostly porn though) and 50 blocked keywords…and increasing.
the poorest europoor is now Hungary. What 20 years of autocrat oppression does to a nation (I really hope you can beat his party at next elections, good luck from Germany <3)
Well at lest he can’t pull the Aljaksandr Lukašenka stunt and refuse to recognise the election result and have the Russian army march through the country when the people rise up.
Might have been an option if Ukraine had fallen.
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Give it time, the US is not relevant as it was 30 years ago and it’s cultural influence is eroding.
I like how there’s a post on shitposts asking if Lemmy is a CIA experiment to radicalise people into class warfare and then there’s this post. When the CIA has been funneling money into American movies and TV since 1947 to make everything about America and how great it is.
You first. We’re not on board with any of this
from the poorest euro poor… who probably has free healthcare and a safety net D :
Americans: no.
Unfortunately America is relevant to most of the world rn. Wish it wasn’t though
Agreed! Probably everyone would have done better without them :)
It’s relevant, yes, but not the center of every single topic or event they is happening or exists anywhere.
Go online however and you’d think it were.
The bigger problem is their assumption that their country is the “default” country. Discussing something highly specific to your nation, or posting a news article covering a topic that is only relevant within your nation? You need to provide the context of what country you’re talking about, otherwise people might be confused or waste their time reading something irrelevant to them. Over and over.
… unless it’s about the USA of course, then you don’t need to give any context at all because of course the only people they use the Internet are Americans, and obviously the only country worth talking about is the 🇺🇸 US of A! 🇺🇸
This is highly encouraged in places like Reddit, where communities like /r/news or /r/politics are actually local national subreddits just for the USA, but because they’re special little darlings they use the format that should be reserved for all news and political discussion, rather than a more appropriate and descriptive title like /r/usanews or /r/usapolitics, which would actually be… you know… descriptive and helpful.
That’s not even mentioning the number of times some random person has used code/abbreviation to describe where they are to lend context to a conversation, but failed to take into account that people outside of your country don’t know your local regional internal place names.
Oh, you’re from ML? OH? TA? Great, that provides precisely zero information because those aren’t country name abbreviations. Oh, you’re from London which is all the context you think I need? Okay, I know Lo…oh, London… Texas? 🤦♀️
So many wonderful people in the USA, so many fantastic people who don’t have any of the traits I’ve described, I just wish the ones strutting around acting like they’re the only country in the world and on the internet would open their eyes to how that sort of toxic personality trait looks to, and affects others :-(
I mean, isn’t this why everything you see is America dominated? Almost every major platform used by typical English speaking westerners is going to be owned and made in America and hence America focused. Combine this with the gargantuan influence America exerts on the world, I don’t think it’s hard to see why you see so much American centered things. I get this is a shit post but I always see comments like this bemoaning american over representation.
My grocery store has an icon on products that have tariffs on it, aka u.s. only. With maple leaf symbols on stuff made, or packaged in canada.
Dude I live in the middle of the continent. I can drive for nearly 1,000 miles in any direction but north and still be in the US. not only is nearly everything about America for me, but I have nothing to do with anywhere else other than where the shit I buy comes from.
The people you need to bitch at are the enormous corporations expanding across the world like a cancer and the same federal government most of us hate too. You may have to put up with “everything being about America” but we’re drowning in it, please send help.
Sick, I live in the middle of the continent as well! I can also drive 1 mile in each direction and still be in the united states, so must live super close! But I’m a little confused why you use miles? Everybody I know always uses km here in Germany
Okay dumbass, nobody is throwing a tantrum over units other than you. Why are you so pathetic, would you like to tell us?
he said 1000miles.
The US cant be compared to Germany. Based on size, population, and biome variation, the US can only be compared to Europe
Bad timing, our national day is this week.
You people are doing something big on the 4th right?
Yeah, we’re gonna blow the shit out of the sky.
As is good ole 'Murican tradition, blowing shit up.
I like how this meme said America twice proving that it is the greatest nation on earth and probably the universe.
You don’t even have a name. You are just some states in (the continent of) America that just happen to be united for some reason
“Columbia” was pitched but didn’t catch on, except for Washington District of Columbia
We are united because no individual state in the union has the capacity to become the world’s largest economy or sole superpower. Together we managed it.
I appreciate how the europoor made this meme about America.
USA! USA!
I hope one day they get to visit our glorious nation and get a taste of real freedom.
Your comment says it too.
I wish all Americans capitalists, the US government, and their vassal States to stop making everything about America.
Like I’m American but I would be literally thrilled for America to be relegated to the dustbin of history.
germanixx@lemmings.world 9 months ago
Some American weirdos: should have voted for biden
Tja@programming.dev 9 months ago
When the bullets are American, it is relevant.
germanixx@lemmings.world 9 months ago
Blaming America is relevant. Whining about their domestic politics when the part guy sent as much bullet as the new one is inhumane and tone deaf. Real people are fucking dying