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I'll go first. I wish Lemmy communities existed for: destroyed tanks. Ukraine War video report. sopranos duckposting. benzodiazepines.

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

More UK/Europe based communities

Americans shoehorning (their own) politics and religion in every single comment thread is so unbelievably boring

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

does that happen a lot here or are you venting about the other platform?

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The majority of users are surely from the US, and so questions that don't specify origin but whose answers may be more properly dictated by knowing their origin end up getting answered by the majority US user-base, even though the original person asking the question isn't from the US.

It's fair that people from elsewhere shouldn't always have to specify they're from elsewhere because the entire internet does not exist just in the USA, the USA just has an outsized influence on the internet. I can see how that frustration could arise and why European-based communities would be helpful. It's the same issue on reddit, if you're not on a country-specific-level-sub, the default answers are from US users.

It's genuinely an issue, and I say this as an American, mostly because I'm guilty of it myself. We absolutely dominate the online discourse and usually default to assuming questions that don't specify where they are about must be American. It's a very Amerocentric view of the world and the internet.

+1 for good UK/European communities.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The majority of users are surely from the US

Hmm citation needed? I'm not so sure a majority is from the US, even if US users is the largest group.

What I find most annoying is stuff like /c/news and /c/politics (on any instance) being actually only about US news or US politics. And then you need /c/world_news to be actual news from around the world. I wish more instances did what Beehaw did and made /c/news into the world news community and then made /c/usnews to be... well, US news.

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