I hear you and am guilty of it myself. I feel like it’s due to the anonymous nature of the internet. I think everyone immediately falls into the category of “peer” before putting a touch more thought into who the actual person (bot/ai) is that wrote the reply. Add that to the fact that most Americans see themselves (as a country) as the king of the world.
Maybe you can try typing with an accent, but I think that’d probably just be seen as a racist American.
As someone outside the U.S., what is your default persona for anonymous/pseudonymous users until you know more about them? Just curious. Like, if you don’t have any information about them, do you read the words in the voice of a person just like you?
I default to everyone sounding like Macho Man Randy Savage.
I’m from Australia and don’t mind engagement with the (mostly) US content.
Let’s face it, the US election is the most interesting event on the planet anyway.
also one of the most concerning ones
This is lemmy.world, you would have to join lemmy.{country} for lands beyond the fruited plains and purple mountains majesty.
i live in DC and we get tagged for everything world politics.
forgive me for not caring if fvey countries get lumped into uspol.
Maybe you should try posting more often then ;)
Not on Lemmy. Om Lemmy you’re 50% German, 50% American unless proven otherwise.
There was a fair amount of French language posts too, not sure how much quality and engagement they have.
Well, then have some proof:
G E K O L O N I S E E R D
zeg makker
𝕯𝖎𝖊𝖘𝖊 𝕶𝖔𝖒𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖆𝖗𝖘𝖊𝖐𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝖎𝖘𝖙 𝖓𝖚𝖓 𝖟𝖚 𝕱𝖚𝖊𝖓𝖋𝖟𝖎𝖌 𝕻𝖗𝖔𝖟𝖊𝖓𝖙 𝕰𝖎𝖌𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖚𝖒 𝖉𝖊𝖗 𝕭𝖚𝖓𝖉𝖊𝖘𝖗𝖊𝖕𝖚𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖐 𝕯𝖊𝖚𝖙𝖘𝖈𝖍𝖑𝖆𝖓𝖉!
SPRICH
ESPAÑOL
ТЫ
Du irrst dich, Brudi - niemand spricht Deutsch hier.
Da hast du wohl recht, ich habe noch kein einziges “du hast mich” bis jetzt (Verwenden Sie für den zitierten Teil nicht Google Translate)
ich habe noch kein einziges “du hast mich” bis jetzt
Auch weil alles Liebe in Lemmy ist, ja? /witz
das oder neunundneunzig Luftballons 🎈
Yo no hablar alemàn
Se hablás castellano entonces complica, ya que no hablo. Excepto cuando borracho*. Aún asi, no es castellano, es más como portitañol…
*de veras, che. Una vodca hoy sería genial.
I have blocked sooooo many german communities and several german instances.
I browse all to get as much new content as possible.
But I have to block a shitload of stuff I am not interested in seeing.
SPRICH DEUTSCH DU HURENSOHN
Nej, jag kan inte Tyska, men om du vill kan vi prata Svenska! (:
jach ki’imak in wóol yo’osal Google Translate
Ik versta daar dus allebij helemaal niks van. Wel leuk, zo’n internationale draad.
Fel språk är jag rädd, försök igen! (:
akkor a kurva anyád
Moerasduits. Is dat goed genoeg?
Tja, da verpasst du was…
Just learn German. Just do it
Äh, du kan väl lika gärna lära dig Svenska, det blir enklare för oss båda! (:
I was thinking of doing that if I actually move to Finland.
Having been to Finland before I know that it’s not very useful in everyday situations but it’s still useful and way easier to learn than finnish. Especially as I speak German.
There are parts on Finland where Swedish is the primary laguage even over Finnish.
Ja genau.
Alter… das kann nicht sein
Ja ech waar, ik maak geen gein
Just like Geilenkirchen.
Just like Reddit was back in the day.
I’ve heard it called “US Defaultism” where most Americans online seem to assume that everyone they interact with is from their country and all US news is considered significant even when it really isn’t.
Counterpoint: I rarely see non-US news posted. I do from time to time here on Lemmy, but it’s very rare.
I might just be in the wrong communities though.
I do this sometimes, and I hate when I catch myself doing it.
I’ve been guilty of that- commenting before checking what community the post was in. Thankfully, I’ve found that most people outside of the US prefer gentle correction. Unfortunately, I doubt the average person from the US would show the same courtesy if the roles were reversed.
I find that it correlates more with education status than nationality… but therefore it surely is more rare among the set of average Americans who have access to the internet than globally.
There are tons of tankie subs where you can masturbate to false expectations of the planet and openly hate people who you’ve never met before, check it out!
ironically, tankies usually fall very deep into US defaultism, since everything everywhere is always the fault of the US
Oh yes I forgot I blocked Lemmy.ml, no russian representation
…Anything written in English, and you can usually filter that even more by just looking for people using too many U’s.
What if i use “color”, " gouvernment", “dialogue”, " humor", “armor”, " and “honour”
Finally your edumacashun is compleute, go fourth and enjouy your freedumb! 😜
I see you like to keep 'em guessing.
people using too many U’s
You mean people using British spellings right?
One day if we are brave, we will get rid of the U in a lot of British words like color and armor, but by God we will keep the British U in the word glamour!
Why whateveur dou you mean?
Lol ngl that’s probably how a French accent would look like spelt out XD
I think you’ll find most of the time the British use precisely the number U’s they intend to though typos may afflict even the best.
And when you do use those ⟨U⟩ (I do), people assume that you know what’s going on in the UK (I don’t.).
Tbf it seemed to make more sense for the likes of Reddit, Facebook, etc. Similarly if I go to a Chinese forum I would not assume that everyone there was from the USA.
I’ve heard this more times, and it’s kind of baffling. The US isn’t even the biggest individual country on Facebook. What do people who assume everyone is from the US think a non-US “forum” looks like? Where do Americans think everybody else hangs out online?
Given how many people choose to speak their native language in the US (myself included), I guess they assume they post to forums that are in their language.
So like Facebook and Reddit? Social media isn’t in English specifically. People who speak other languages often post in their native language for some things and in the lingua franca for more international conversations. The Internet is the Internet regardless.
As a US citizen I think we forget how much of our shit gets out.
I’m always surprised when I go abroad and people are up to date with somewhat niche US info. I was in Hong Kong and some local dude made a reference to the fatass NJ gov who was chilling on the closed beach during lockdowns.
I do feel like I see far more people complaining about US people making assumptions than I do US people assuming. When I’m replying to someone I don’t put any thought into where they’re from unless they drop a context clue.
NOW, but when Reddit started, and therefore the now infamous subreddit names were first doled out?
I am fairly sure that the rest of the world already existed. And those formats keep being in use in newer places, too. This is not just a Reddit thing. Even you mentioned Facebook, which was instantly popular globally.
I am fairly sure that the rest of the world already existed.
No way - at least not back then! Source: am American, and therefore entirely confident that no other nations existed prior to my hearing about them (Christopher Columbus told me so! 😛). And maybe even then… which reminds me, are you so sure that you are real? Maybe you too are in America and just forgot? 🫠
Also, just so we are clear, “American” = “USAian”, definitely no other nations exist on the American continent, nope, no way! (Except Canada and Mexico, and they get a pass as wannabe USA states) 😜
Jimmy Eat USA
Bleed Earthlings
as a person that came from 3rd world country, i relate T_T
The SMX “World Championship” just finished. It only takes place in the US.
You mean anything with
outworld in its name?What? Like the World Series of Baseball?
The name fits, it’s just that the only people in the world who give a shit about baseball are from the USA.
Well that’s just not true, you should check out the World baseball Classic, it’ll open your eyes.
Japan would like a word, but otherwise, fair enough
Puerto Rico and Cuba also love baseball.
Sorry, anything with or without / everything not ich_iel
