• Sarmyth@lemmy.world
    558·
    6 days ago

    It makes me laugh when Europeans makes these comments. If you want to see more European centric content… post it. Its free to do.

    People write as though Americans need to stop interacting with the platform, when the solution is really to increase European engagement, which falls on them to do.

  • FinishingDutch@lemmy.world
    182·
    5 days ago

    Well sure. But that’s also because everyone else learned how to use English to communicate. So it FEELS like we’re all American. It’s a common thing in online spaces.

    Maar als we allemaal terug zouden gaan naar onze eigen taal, voelt het hier een stuk minder Amerikaans.

    I’ve literally had lengthy English conversations with other Dutch people online where we only figured out we were both Dutch twenty comments later :D

  • Daemon Silverstein@calckey.world
    1173·
    7 days ago

    @Mika@sopuli.xyz !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world I’m Brazilian and oftentimes the “All” feed across the entire Lemmy ecosystem feels, in fact, like a smoothie mashup between European-specific political issues and USian-specific political issues, so, when it comes to the phenomenon that the European Fedizens feel on Lemmy, not only we feel the same, but we, Fedizens from the Global South, we feel it twice!

      • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
        156·
        6 days ago

        We do, it is just that Americans flood even country-specific subs to make it about them.

        We know your country sucks, you don’t have to remind us every time we open the internet.

        • jsomae@lemmy.ml
          4·
          6 days ago

          That you say “your country” immediately reveals your own bias to assume that everything you see is American.

          You probably think everyone posting is male as well.

          Even I think this despite being a canadian woman.

    • LustyArgonian@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      5 days ago

      Was just permabanned from Ask Lemmy for explaining Russian and Chinese bots (bots are slaves). FYI did you know it’s totally okay for Russia and China to have slaves and engage in expansionism and election interference? Slaves are TOTALLY COOL and fine if they are Russian or Chinese, even if that means Russia or China expands into new territories and enslaves new people👍 Disliking slavery and war makes me a US propaganda shill somehow, even though the US is also explicitly pro-slavery (13th amendment) and pro-warfare and is operated by a Russian asset so all US propaganda these days IS Russian propaganda

      • Dasus@lemmy.world
        3·
        5 days ago

        Oh they actually specified “US”? Usually they just ramble on about the generic West.

          • Dasus@lemmy.world
            2·
            5 days ago

            Yeah I can’t even interact with that, Davel has made sure to only participate in boards where he’s a mod, and I can’t interact with anything he posts / comments because he makes damn sure not to come over to neutral boards.

            He’s a pathetic Russian pretending to be American

            I kept on pointing that out and he retreated back to communities he mods and never steps foot outside. Coward.

            I am the moderator now

      • AA5B@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 days ago

        Even as an American and as a supporter of the freedom of these federated model, I have to wonder if there should be a mandated taxonomy. I don’t want to restrict anyone’s freedom of expression, but I want there to be some basic organization such that I can be an informed consumer

        • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          2·
          6 days ago

          If anyone is allowed too much power, like billionaires, or any anti-democratic institution likefor-profit corporations get too big, you do not have a democracy-federated or not. It’s like trying to judge the flavor of a sandwich after dipping it in human shit-it mightve been a good or bad sandwich before, but no sandwich is good like this.

          As the technologies of control get more sophisticated, you’ll find more and more that any attempt to have democracy without metaohorically decapitating those problems just means more resources are turned to those technologies, more of society and its mechanisms seem convoluted and inscrutable.

    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      5·
      6 days ago

      It’s not even “news” - a lot of that shit is just Clown-President does yet another thing that a Clown would do.

  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
    331·
    6 days ago

    be eurotrash

    bored and want to see what the Internet is up to since I last looked 30 seconds ago

    login to lemmy from my eurotrash instance

    check lemmy.world for news

    surprisedeurochu.eu

    all this US garbage rubbish!

    bollocks.mpeg

    makes a post complaining about US posts and ignores everything else going on in Europe

    am we doing this right?

  • DUMBASS@leminal.spaceEnglish
    18·
    6 days ago

    There’s a beautiful sweet spot between the Americans going to bed and the Germans waking up where Its not US politics but I can still understand whats being said.

  • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    661·
    7 days ago

    c’est parce que lemmy.world (et la plupart des instances) est anglophone, donc a un biais américain/britannique

    moi je propose que tout le monde parle dans sa langue maternelle, pis de toute façon les logiciels de traduction sont rendus assez bon on va pouvoir se comprendre quand même

    (/j)

    • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
      5·
      6 days ago

      Yeah, I block them as they come up, not because I have a problem with them, but because I can’t speak German, and there’s zero chance I’m learning German at 37.

        • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
          2·
          6 days ago

          The complexity, probably. I am decent in French, rudimentary Spanish. I think I’d go about getting a better handle on those before German. And then, if I choose to step away from the romantic languages, it’s probably for Chinese, Korean, or Japanese. So I shouldn’t say zero, zero isn’t real, but it’s close to zero.

          So it’s not some anti-german thing. Ich habe einen Bruder, I’ve got a little German, my girlfriend in high school took it, but I just don’t see it in my future. In fact, besides working and taking care of my family until I die, I don’t see much else.

        • Potatar@lemmy.world
          21·
          5 days ago

          It’s a weird ass language. When you start, it feels easy because rules are rigid. Then you try to build longer sentences PROPERLY and you feel that it is cumbersome. Finally you try to talk to native speakers, and you see that native speakers also think it is cumbersome and they omit 50% of rules in dailyspeak. Then, your brain turns into a mush which cannot decide if past is ok here or do I do perfekt to not look like a posh journalist. Do I use genitive like a properboi or dativ like a correct streetboi? Oh wait, they call it Cola (female) in Germany but Cola (male) in Austria? Wait what? it’s not country specific but much more local than that and you can be wrong while in a car?

          It’s a mess.