This makes me think of a Reddit thread about how annoying it is to be constantly surrounded by US topics as a non-American on Reddit. Half the comments were ‘you’re on an American site! You’re so entitled! What the hell are you expecting?’
If I understand correctly, lemmy.world is the largest Lemmy instance and is registered in the Netherlands, so what’s the excuse now?
But to temper my words a bit, I get we have a big American user base. I’d just like them to not treat Lemmy as an American community.
This makes me think of a Reddit thread about how annoying it is to be constantly surrounded by US topics as a non-American on Reddit
It really is. I’m not european either, but at least i don’t see it as much as US news.
You won’t believe this: I’ve seen people argue that since most of lemmy is from the US (no claims to back this up) apparently we’re all from the US, lol.
You can’t call this type of behavior out either, since you’ll just be downvoted to hell, too. :/ Also, some great defaultism such as “our country” “the party” which i see all the time.
I don’t hate americans, i just don’t like how a lot of them think they’re the center of the world.
This makes me think of a Reddit thread about how annoying it is to be constantly surrounded by US topics as a non-American on Reddit. Half the comments were ‘you’re on an American site! You’re so entitled! What the hell are you expecting?’
If I understand correctly, lemmy.world is the largest Lemmy instance and is registered in the Netherlands, so what’s the excuse now?
But to temper my words a bit, I get we have a big American user base. I’d just like them to not treat Lemmy as an American community.
It really is. I’m not european either, but at least i don’t see it as much as US news.
You won’t believe this: I’ve seen people argue that since most of lemmy is from the US (no claims to back this up) apparently we’re all from the US, lol.
You can’t call this type of behavior out either, since you’ll just be downvoted to hell, too. :/ Also, some great defaultism such as “our country” “the party” which i see all the time.
I don’t hate americans, i just don’t like how a lot of them think they’re the center of the world.
There’s none. !politics@lemmy.world being restricted to US politics while being on LW still seems weird to me, but I have bigger fish to fry.