Lemmy is one of the most annoying social media sites if you're not an american
Holy shit, so much fucking american politics. it's in everything, even the boomer-tier memes.
Its not as bad as reddit was, imo
I feel like it's about the same
Learn how to curate, jeez
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.
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.
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.
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.
I've been going through and blocking news from Nepal, India, and a handful of Middle Eastern 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.
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.
I wonder why lol
I've blocked all of them, it really is a big improvement.
I think I have RSI from blocking gay porn communities
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
I'm on kbin too and I would agree.
Makes sense, because Kbin is made by a Polish developer and its first instance was Polish.
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.
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.
Oh no you had to see a headline and keep scrolling. You gonna be ok?
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—
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
Skill issue
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.
i say from my account on an australian website
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.
How do I curate American politics out of my communities? Genuinely wondering.
block the politics communities
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.
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.
Filter users that post about it and keywords related to it
which
Now THAT's the American work ethic.
hot damn dude do you switch off?