A few examples include s*x questions on askreddit, “this” comments, nolife powermods, jokes being more frequent than actual answers

  • @[email protected]
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    991 year ago

    Reddit became too America focused. Most of the posts were about America or assumed everyone reading was American. It felt very exclusionary.

    • @[email protected]
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      121 year ago

      I think this will remain a problem on any platform that includes enough Americans. The general public in America just seems unaware of anything outside America.

      I think this stems from their education system, what they (don’t) broadcast on mass-media and how normal and even laudable they consider fanatical nationalism to be (did you know they require children to swear devotion to the nation state every day at school!?).

      In any case, I don’t think this is a problem that any platform that wants to include Americans can avoid.

      • @[email protected]
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        91 year ago

        (did you know they require children to swear devotion to the nation state every day at school!?).

        Untrue. Happens in some areas, but far from universal. However, it is weird (self-loathing american reporting).

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year ago

        It’s also that it’s legitimately unusual to travel to another country more than once or twice before you’re an adult because of the geography.

        • @[email protected]
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          41 year ago

          It’s also extremely expensive and honestly most of us don’t get enough PTO to do that really. Shitposting online is cheap and easily distracts from how Americans work more hours on average than even Japan.

          But it’s always ironic to see people upset Americans don’t understand other nationalities while also not understanding why we’re like this.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          I mean, the same geographic constraints are true of Australia, New Zealand and Canada but they don’t have anything near the level of insularity.

    • @[email protected]
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      101 year ago

      Well I think ideally that’s what different instances should help. I’m on a Canadian instance with a lot of Canadian specific communities. I’ve seen instances of many other specific countries. That should theoretically counter that whole experience on Reddit

        • @[email protected]
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          71 year ago

          Which honestly has been one of my favourite features of Lemmy so far. I can browse All to see what everyone is talking about, I can browse Subscribed to see what I care about and I can browse Local to see what Canadians care about.

    • Briongloid
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      81 year ago

      And the arrogance about it was unbelievable, it was extremely common behaviour.

    • @[email protected]
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      71 year ago

      I saw this complaint on reddit a lot, but at the end of the day, it was a US based site. Of course there will be mostly Americans and they will default to that understanding.

      Also, the US is a large country. It’s not like Europe where you’re a day trip away from 5 other countries. Most Americans can’t afford travel outside the US, so they only have exposure to the many cultures within the US.

      The hate Americans get for not catering discussion on a US based site to the global community is really what’s strange.

      • @[email protected]
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        61 year ago

        Most Americans can’t afford travel outside the US, so they only have exposure to the many cultures within the US.

        You can travel in a straight line over land 2700 miles from Washington to Florida without leaving the United States. Make a foray into Canada and you can travel a 4300 mile long straight line from Alaska to Florida without leaving a country that speaks majority English.

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        The hate Americans get for not catering discussion on a US based site to the global community is really what’s strange.

        I just want y’all to stop saying shit like “oh xyz is like 20$ right now” like it’s just as cheap everywhere else in the world.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        I appreciate that. What bugs me is when people don’t read the name of the sub they’re in though - if it’s askUK or casualuk then maybe it’s not the place to talk about America, particularly when it’s an advice thread about laws for example.

        Just some self awareness would be good.

        • APassenger
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          41 year ago

          I’m curious, which part is a myth? I only see facts and not all of them paint America as great.

          These things exist elsewhere, besides. Just not always in “the West.”

            • @[email protected]
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              41 year ago

              Let me simplify this. Would you go to a forum with an address in .ar and complain that the discussion doesn’t pertain to you? You wouldn’t, but you are just blindly hateful of Americans for whatever reason.

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                  America is far from a monolith. Our states roughly equate to different European countries with vastly different cultures, foods, rights and laws.

                  We just speak dialects that are almost all the same and roll up under one political entity. It is not so dissimilar than the EU, otherwise.

                  We are, in many practical terms a forced confederation with a shared Constitution. There are those, like in the EU, who want out.

                  Edit: the shared single language is one of our under-recognized super-powers. I can travel this huge land mass and communicate viably everywhere. It is key to our cultural impact. It is accidental, but helpful to us. Except when we have people who dislike our impact and become hostile.

            • APassenger
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              01 year ago

              Which Americans are you talking to? We know there are other countries and cultures. We just aren’t responsible for learning deeply about all of them. No one is.

              You’re using some strong, broad strokes that aren’t reflective of my experience at all.

                • APassenger
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                  I am learning those things… hell, I’m studying a completely different language and learning the history.

                  I think I’m not who you think I am.

                • APassenger
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                  The above is one example.

                  You don’t have a high ground, here.

    • Obinice
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      61 year ago

      Christ, yes. Every other comment or post was something that assumed everyone was in the USA, or that they were the greatest most perfect wonderful nation and all others are basically hell on earth.

      🤦‍♀️

      • @[email protected]
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        71 year ago

        Literally full of shit lmao. Who on reddit mainstream is talking about how the US is the greatest place on Earth.

        Usually its the entire other way around where Reddit is acting like the apocalypse is about to start at any point.

        Here’s a new one for this thread. “People who complain about Americans over the dumbest things”. It’s straight up like you have a chip on your shoulder.

      • Shifty McCool
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        111 year ago

        What id like to see on Lemmy is less America-hate… Or just hating on countries in general. Hatable humans live in countries, let’s talk about them instead of everybody in that country. “Gunshot story? Must be America!” Gets old really quick

        • @[email protected]
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          91 year ago

          I hate many countries, USA included. But not the people. Heck I even hate my own country.

          The thing is, the people don’t run those countries.

          But, also I do need to mention that the laws that are being made do affect the society and their ideas.

          • @[email protected]
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            61 year ago

            This, nationalism is just the worst. You’ve achieved nothing by being born in a certain country, waving that flag around proudly thinking you’re superior to anyone else is just something i can’t understand.