Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed?

People use All?

Certainly mixes things up compared to Local.

Ok

Its funny cause no one in the US complained about all the brexit stuff a few years ago and we just read about neighboring politics. Shits a mess here rn and its in the news. Calm down people. You'll have your mess too.

Apparently only USA speaks English and we should all be speaking German or something to show we're not American?

There is something so ironic about this post xD what about the other continents? I have been told they have people with internet access too xD

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.

Are there no other places than Europe or America?

Nope. Only America and Europe have internet, silly.
There are. There are also Africa, Asia, Australia and Antarctic.

Yup

why is it decapitated
- Meme template.

NSF the Euros ::: spoiler spoiler

:::

I mean... it's a nice distraction from what's going on here in Europe. Sort of escapism if you want.

Yeah, with a few exceptions, if you are in Europe you can likely look at our news media and be like "Ha, well, at least I am not there"
- ...yet.

you want my several decades old stories about accidentally buying stickers with shaggy's dick on them? it wasn't in statesia but it might as well have been, let's be honest

Sort by new and you'll find it's a bunch of Germans too. Ich liebe meine deutschen Freunde der Nacht.

Go to english-speaking social media

See people from the country with the most english speakers

people from the country with the most english speakers
India?
You might be on to something 🤔
!ich_iel@feddit.org disagrees.
- Aye, that's the point I'm making, I don't go to to Feddit and acted shocked it's a bunch of Germans talking about Germany

It's always funny to see Europeans complain about US hegemony

If Europeans really wanted more content on .world, they would stop taking month long beach vacations and spend more of their 10 hours workdays shit posting from the company toilet
pourqoi?
- Because the rest of the world is tired of both of them.
  Edit: Changed you to them in case you're form Haiti.

I would love to see less America doom and gloom on lemmy. Why should we be the center of everything? More European- and Canada-centric posts, please.

I never downvote Canada/Europe posts and I'm always happy to see the German memes materialize to take over the front page at like 3:00pm even though I don't understand 95% of the content on ich_iel. I do kinda wish there was a larger international community on Lemmy.world.
Be there change you want to see, I believe in you. x

Hello Europoors, from a fellow poor American.

is the USA on Saturn now?

That's what I'm saying months now, especially with US politics and Trump, but I'm only getting downvoted! People upvote Politics and downvotes everything else.

I'm in the Middle East, but I feel the same way.

My condolences. The middle east is a friggin inferno this time of year. Visited a middle eastern country a few years ago and I did not know heat until I spent two weeks in the month of July down there.
Was so fucking relieved when nighttime came and the temperatures lowered to 38C. :'D
I legit don't know how you guys deal with that heat. I'm in awe.

I wish I was in Europe. Where I could pretend that news about our downfall was for a time at a distance and would never affect me.

End stage capitalism comes for all nations given enough time.
- Name one? The romans were not capitalists.
Oh don't worry it will affect us alright, it's just that we don't have any say in whatever happens there.
- Like any of us do? I'm just waiting for lines to be drawn where I know where I can stand.
- Not so different after all 🇪🇺💞🇱🇷!

what? are you laying blame? or just bummed that no other nations news has a critical mass on lemmy to push stories from other nations on the all page? did you expect that to happen? or are you alleging that there is active suppression of other countries news?

Well it's not like there's much else.

Lemmy is dominated by exactly three topics and nothing else.

AI, Linux and ... Hrm ... I donk know; communism, porn or doom for third place?

"worldnews": American local news

It's not even "news" - a lot of that shit is just Clown-President does yet another thing that a Clown would do.
It ain't even local news. What we have now, is anybody's guess.
- Corporate shitheel news.
- 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
Ahhhh...I get you...like the World Series.
"worldnews": only in Ohio

Interesting meme. tbf, I don't even know what a true world instance/feed would even look like. Is it possible??? Would we just have a single instance where you can choose a language option (wrapper/client type of deal) and it would layer in such a way that would translate flawlessly betwixt user post / reader / commentator??? Sounds interesting 🤔

Or you just force everyone to get down and dirty and grind anki until they learn every language
- If we do this, our kids will have to solve Spanish captchas before asking their french AI girlfriends to create mandarin memes.

Hallo

I get the same feeling watching the Warner-Discovery owned Polish TV station "TVN".

Trump something something Washington
Bro who cares this is Europe?

Last phone booth removed in New York (a few years ago)
???

It’s also nice when they come into our country-specific subs to tell us how things are in the US, as we get so little news about the US.

I hear more news from the US than my own country. Granted, my own country's politics are people respectfully discussing policy matters while US politics is like a circus and a pro wrestling league combined, with unimaginably high stakes.
I seek out the non-US perspective. Sometimes you need someone else to show you that the Emperor has no clothes.
- Or sometimes just to have a sane conversation.
  Given practically any forward looking or quality of life topic: here it’s dominated by politics, illegal program cuts, incompetent leaders selected only for personal loyalty, breaking it for the sake of breaking it. Can’t we discuss things like adults?

Uses an English based platform

Is shocked most users are from the biggest English speaking country

English based Platform? Uuuuh, buddy the fediverse is a global project and hosted in several different countries.

it's the USA shitting in its own pants

Hey thats not always true! Someyimes it's someone else's!

be the change you want to see in the .world

People don’t post or comment and wonder why there is no content relevant to themselves
It’s a mystery /s

Isn't LW hosted in Europe?

That doesn't stop Americans signing up with the instance and then dominating all discussion there.
It is.

Anyone else outside US and Europe: do we exist?

There is an "All" feed? I just subscribe to funny stuff.

Sometimes my feed is like half German memes

- Now do it in German 😆
- Lol, I just translate them and laugh along with em.
  I'm American, sorry.
The trick is to block feddit.org domain.
- Nah, just block the ich_iel community. The rest is majority English
I deliberately subscribed to them lol
- ICH IEL
The perks of federation.
I am enjoying the riceballs much more than the Presidential idiocy randomiser.

Si Jerboa tuviera Sprachenfiltros, je culomuerto faria uso of it, für vero. De cierto, io teria menos memes, pero also menos YouAss Notícias & Politiks

I have no idea what language is this but I can read it.

I feel pretty European when I wake up and see all the German stuff trending in the morning.

@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!

At least when it comes to sport, we speak one language
- Football.
- @wieson@feddit.org Well, I'm not really into sports (I'm far detached from the stereotypical Brazilian who likes to watch Corinthians x Palmeiras/Flamengo x Fluminense/etc at Fridays while they're gathering with their friends in a bar while drinking cachaça, I'm more of a nerdy and friendless person), but indeed, soccer/football is definitely part of a cultural aspect shared among European countries (especially Germany, Portugal and Spain, as far as I know) and Brazil (as well as other South American countries, such as Argentina).
Ouch.

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)

Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?
Je m'en fous
Ashamed American here and I assume your comment was in French, and those are the only two things I have even the vaguest clue how to pronounce in French (but I had to look up the spelling!)
Funny enough, as you suggested, I popped your text into a translator after typing out the above and using my limited second language knowledge, and it turns out, I managed to get the general gist of it without the help of a translator!
Right. For example my browser did a perfectly cromulent job of translating what you just wrote into a language I can read …… unless you weren’t talking about a plot to take over the world
américain/britannique
C'est compréhensible et logique, bien sûr, mais <<américain/britannique>> est douloureux à voir en tant que Britannique.
ilo pi ante toki li ken ala ante e toki pona. mi toki e toki ni la seme?
Amigo, a tu español le falta mas práctica. Muy apenas se te entiende.
/s
- @InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world @carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone
  Pois é, o bagulho tá mó difícil de entender, o pessoal parece que não desembucha na hora de prosear 😅
  /s
You joke, but I would welcome this.
Je voudrais voir francophone « content », où sont le content francophone?
- Ils sont à jlai.lu.
oui, baguette
- Omelette du fromage
~~(/j)~~

Browse "all"? You crazy fool.

How else am I going to find entirely new topics on which to expose my ignorance?

Yeah, I'm guilty. Am American. Migrated to Lemmy when RIF was killed by reddit.

Meh, viva chile!

Sorry for hijacking your comment... VIVA LA TIERRA QUE TIENE UN PINCHE AGUILA ARRIBA DE UN NOPAL PELEANDO CON UNA SERPIENTE ALAVERGA
- Mexico is fake, did you know nobody has been able to prove the existence of mexico?
  they just invented it to sell more tacos.
- Updoot for alaverga!

Rarely I see a French post so I have a look but it's usually random news. French memes are so boring, half of them are about bakery and stuff.

The french memes on !rance@jlai.lu are more about stuff and less about bakery, but they're not that active lately.
I think there's a place for a community called 'epiceriedumemes', a play on words denoting both variety of content (like an epicerie) and spicyness (epicer).
Then again, it also really invites more bakery memes, so idk.
(Please forgive my lack of accented characters)

Honestly, i won't have it any other way and im not from the us

Not Europe but I can relate.

I've blocked quite a few very popular communities because I don't understand their language. I'm guessing they're still popular? Europe as a whole, seems to be quite popular (or it was, I've blocked them).

Had me in the first half. Thought this was, once again, about 'Muricans. No comprendo, no parlan gut Englisch

Is EU not one of the distant states of USA?

Increase your population, elect the worst leaders, ditch universal healthcare and other social supports, and your country can contest the US in potential topics for the All feed!

Well I suppose I'll take that silver lining then, given how our continents going for the most part

!europe@feddit.org

Sorry, I don't go to feddit.org due to their censorship of Israel-critical posts. Due to moral reasons I cannot accept (though I understand) this despite being a legal requirement.
- Thanks didn’t know this, I’m blocking them too. But to be honest, also here in .world there are many people repeating zionist propaganda with no shame.
- If I just have a quick look at !Europe and its recent top post, first thing I see is this and in the comments a banned user, who says recognizing Palestine as a state would be like giving the Hamas a win. So I don't see much censorship of Israel-critical posts there. E: I'm afraid blocking this only leads to damaging discussions by not even joining them at the first place, because now there just are fewer people who actually want to discuss something instead of just wanting to troll.

Isn't LW Dutch?

And if we're just talking about All, mine seems to be predominantly porn and Germans

Which is frankly, a pretty European combo

I'm not European but I am Canadian and I don't know if Americans realise how annoying it is that any general community like "politics" or "news" is specifically American as per the rules. I was really hoping we'd leave the US defaultism behind on Reddit
- It is so annoying and it's my biggest complaint about Lemmy. Every dang thread, the comment section is usually filled with US politics discussion even if it's a completely unrelated topic.
- I wonder if people complained about the German defaultism in 1911 or 1936.
Tell that to all the non US specific named communities created on LW, that are actually US specific according to rules.
Politics, news... All those communities are actually US specific, while having a nonUS name and being hosted on Europe. It irritates me.

Yup, though I lowkey prefer it because EU posts tend to attract more Hitlerite takes and comments. There's just something about other Europeans that make them have an elevated level of nationalism

Unlike the US
- You think you're better than each other. We know we're better than all of you.
  Is what I would have said ten years ago

Nah, Piefed filters are great.

Agreed. When I tried Lemmy, it didn't have filters, so that was an immediate no for me. I just don't get the appeal of being fed a list, and not being able to filter out the noise.

IDK, I never browse All, basically. Funny meme, tho.

My bad ¯(ツ)/¯

USA is the world.

Thankfully not, but it is an unfortunately large part of the world
xD
Counterpoint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4ix5FImmuA
- Counter-counterpoint:
  YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google.
  Google is also American.