Holy shit, so much fucking american politics. it’s in everything, even the boomer-tier memes.
Learn how to curate, jeez
Lemmy is one of the most annoying social media sites if you're not an american
Submitted 7 months ago by goat@sh.itjust.works to australia@aussie.zone
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Taleya@aussie.zone 7 months ago
quicken@aussie.zone 7 months ago
This is true on almost all social media. There’s an inherit USA assumption. People with kick off topics in news, pics, funny, tv, sports etc assuming you’re in their context.
Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s the most populous English speaking country so it’s not that weird an assumption, even if you’re not American. There are more English speakers in the United States than in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa combined.
Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 7 months ago
As someone else has stated, reddit was way worse,
The big difference I see is that while there is a lot of US politics here, if you block those subs, it disappears.
On reddit, it was fuckin everywhere.
You could not have a discussion about any country in a specifaclly non-US sub without hordes of yanks pilling into the thread and either:
A: Dragging the discussion to the USA. Well, in the USA the law would work this way... followed by 30 more US centric comments drowning out the discussions from the actual country the story is about.
B: A bunch on yanks telling you how you are doing democracy/free speech/gun control/health care/or basically anything wrong and how you are all sheep who are about to be marched into concentration camps.
So, no can't agree. lemmy/kbin is much better with that shit that reddit has been for a decade or more.
elbarto777@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Or worse. “Hey, here’s a picture of a tree I took in Malaysia”
Comment: “Looks like a pokemon version of Trump, amirite guise harr harr!!”
DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
“That tree fucked around and found out!”
Nath@aussie.zone 7 months ago
95% of my Lemmy browsing is on my subscriptions and local instance (aussie.zone). My subscriptions have a few communities on other instances.
I don’t see a lot of US politics. Though I see more Australian politics than I’d generally seek out, to be honest.
DolphinLundgrin@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Its not as bad as reddit was, imo
BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 7 months ago
I feel like it's about the same
atrielienz@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’ve been going through and blocking news from. Nepal, India, and a handful of middle easter countries left right and center, most of which I can’t understand because I don’t speak their language. If you’re not blocking the Lemmy subs that produce the stuff you don’t want I’m not sure we can help you.
cleverusername@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Seems to be an “internet problem” and not so much a “platform problem”.
They’re stupid, loud and oblivious of the world outside their borders.
Just look at the rest of the internet, there’s no “com.us”, they’re the default.
GentlemanLoser@ttrpg.network 7 months ago
I wonder why lol
grayman@lemmy.world 7 months ago
As an American, it’s annoying as hell for me too. Entrenched leftists and Trumpers are the worst.
the_q@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You’re above it all, eh bud?
grayman@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The blind support of a party? Yes. Yes I am.
hightrix@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Agreed. Hardliners on both sides are frustrating and annoying.
Affidavit@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Did you know some random American gun person went to a Beetlejuice play? Apparently, this is of vital importance and everyone MUST know absolutely every single move that she made that night.
GentlemanLoser@ttrpg.network 7 months ago
Oh no you had to see a headline and keep scrolling. You gonna be ok?
Affidavit@aussie.zone 7 months ago
I won’t lie, it was one of the most difficult things I ever had to do. But I survived. I also survived the next 20-30 times it happened; it doesn’t seem to get any easier though.
It shames me to admit this but sometimes I have nightmares of being stuck in a never-ending loop about Boebert and Beetlejuice. The other day, I caught myself looking in the mirror, I felt like I was somehow possessed and then the words came out of my mouth involuntarily, ‘Boebert, Boebert, Boebert’. I can’t accurately describe the relief I felt when nothing happened. Since then, it feels like it’s finally over! Finally I can breathe easy and rest in—
MacedWindow@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’ve blocked all of them, it really is a big improvement.
DocBlaze@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’ve taken to the block button alot since I moved here from reddit. it’s pretty much the only way because if you stay bubbled up in your local instance you won’t find any new subs as Lemmy grows, but my god when I first got here the amount of involuntary porn I had to sift through upon just making an account was just unsettling, and I’m not a prude at all.
ryannathans@aussie.zone 7 months ago
I think I have RSI from blocking gay porn communities
pdxfed@lemmy.world 7 months ago
As an American, after getting somewhat comfortable with Lemmy, I’ve spent the last week since the blessed Boost app dropped blocking subs in All and local. Some of them are just active (politics), others are low effort pandering immature bullshit (political memes), even news-ish communities seem to have relatively high level of 24-hour biased political stuff. Might have to block them from local/all too.
My feed has definitely improved, I guess I took for granted how curated my feed was on Reddit, but pretty happy with what I have now after a bit of effort.
nevernevermore@kbin.social 7 months ago
I actually think the opposite. I'm on kbin tho, but I've noticed a lot more ESL speakers across the board. But also, I'm really only on aus politic magazines anyway
BaldProphet@kbin.social 7 months ago
Makes sense, because Kbin is made by a Polish developer and its first instance was Polish.
Cornes@kbin.social 7 months ago
I'm on kbkn too and I would agree.
yoz@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Hate to break it to you but the whole world revolves around America. Hollywood, All top internet companies , style trend everything originates from US and the world follows.
goat@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
i say as from my account on an australian website
dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Skill issue
Marin_Rider@aussie.zone 7 months ago
lemmy seems to do a ‘better’ job (if you can call it that) of providing content similar to what you previously browsed than reddit ever did for me. There is also a LOT of american politics here, so you read one article, you are going to be fed many more.
The only real downside to lemmy is that most of the niche communities arent really active which is a shame, thats up to us to get it moving
Ilandar@aussie.zone 7 months ago
You guys should spend more time curating your social media feeds, and less time complaining that the default algorithm/most popular content is “too American”. Lemmy is as bad as you are lazy. OP complaining that there is “too much American politics” when all they seem to do is post in generic political communities, sometimes even directly referencing the US, is pretty stupid.
Kaldo@kbin.social 7 months ago
How do I curate American politics out of my communities? Genuinely wondering.
sour@kbin.social 7 months ago
block the politics communities
Ilandar@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Don’t use All. Or if you do, block communities that are repeat offenders. With all social media I just stick to communities I am specifically interested in. Those generic, catch-all feeds that reddit popularised are absolute cancer and I have no idea why people flock to them. By their very nature they are full of doom scrollers who have little to no interest or experience in the topic of discussion, which usually leads to a lot of uneducated, low effort, bad faith comments from people who are preoccupied with inserting their political beliefs into everything.
Vex_Detrause@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
I use sync and I can block instances, communities, user and even filter out words. I would filter “Trump”, “Republican”, “PP”, etc. When I see it often and is annoying I’ll filter it out. Like when memes community were too much for me they all get blocked.
Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
which
Esqplorer@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Filter users that post about it and keywords related to it
goat@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
hot damn dude do you ever switch off?
ogoflowgo@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Now THAT’s the American work ethic.