(Certain) people from the anglosphere see the network is in English, and conclude it must be local to them.
So if we go with the assumption that Reddit hasn't always been majority users based in the US, why didn't anyone speak up early on about subreddits defaulting to the US? Why didn't people create alternative subreddits early on for their own country?
Also isn't your point about people from the anglosphere assuming the English language means it's local to the kind of proving my point? The majority of users thought "oh the website is in English, must be local to me" and defaulted to the US?
Not sure what your point is with the web archive link, tbh.
Users couldn't even create their own subreddits, as in, Reddit themselves opened all of the original subreddits from the time reddit was founded (EDIT: June 2005) until January 2008.
Reddit, being a US company, would obviously default the subreddits to the US.
Okay, so I provided a source. Do YOU have any concrete data about early reddit or are you just arguing in bad faith?
Is it really not a safe assumption to make that since the website was founded in the US, and today has a vast majority of users from the US, that it wouldn't have been the case early on?
If a website is built in your country, isn't it a safe assumption that the majority of users would be from your country?
No no, you don't understand brother. Have you ever looked at the user stats by country for reddit? Literally right now something like 50% of users are from the US. Early on, the number was even larger.
Here's a source for reddit users based on country in 2022. The number one spot, 47% of users are from the US, number 2? Oh that's the UK with 7%. So even to this day, the US still has the vast majority of traffic to reddit when compared to any other country.
I don't think you understand. The heavy majority of users were from the US, if 95% of the posts are about the US, it's safe to assume it's the default. The website was built in the US.
It's akin to going on a forum for Japanese news and being upset that everyone's speaking Japanese and no ones specifying that they're talking about Japan.
That's besides the point anyway, people not from the US are frustrated that Reddit defaulted to the US, and I get it. I would be too if I wasn't from the US.
I'm ALSO frustrated because the US can come up out of no where on reddit and everyone starts the US apart from seemingly no relation to the original post.
If you saw some of the comments on reddit that were shitting on the US about literally ANY other country, you would without a doubt be pissed off, especially if it was your own country. And it happens ad nauseum when it comes to the US.
To be honest the most I've seen it anywhere, be it Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, etc. Were without a doubt YouTube comments, and random reddit posts and comment sections that had nothing to do with the US.
I'm from the US, and I understand the frustration. But something to keep in mind is that reddit was built in the US, so the first users of the site were also from the US. Hence the original subreddits defaulting to the US.
At the same time, I propose that the fediverse doesn't turn into an "America Bad" circle jerk like it turned in to on reddit.
@ernest Is this something on kbin's side for why Mastodon isn't showing any posts from kbin.social? I'm able to view Lemmy communities fine on Mastodon, but unable to view anything from kbin.
To be honest, I'm happy with how it went. I am excited to be off of Reddit and part of the Fediverse now. I never expected Reddit to fail, but I think there will be a drastic decrease in quality content.
I'm a Controls Engineer, from the day I started university in 2015, I've pretty constantly heard the phrase "You're an engineer, figure it out!" Even when it comes to something that is completely unrelated to my field, which is mostly everything.
One additional plus to using kbin over Lemmy is there's no "Microblog" feature on Lemmy. So if you follow Mastodon accounts on Lemmy, you won't see anything. Whereas if you follow Mastodon accounts on kbin, their posts will come in as Microblogs!
I'm using kbin.social mostly, I will just follow Lemmy communities from kbin once federation is re-enabled. It doesn't make sense to me to have an account for Lemmy AND an account for kbin if they're both part of the Fediverse.
I am also using Mastodon, even though it's part of the Fediverse. I'm doing this because it's more like Twitter, and the tweet equivalent on Mastodon is the same as a "Microblog" on kbin.
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Agreed, the only cities that I've been to that had decent public transport were Chicago (The L) and New York City.