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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by WhoRoger@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

A ton of countries have a decently active Lemmy instance, including the English-speaking ones (UK, AUS, NZ, ZA).

The closest to a US one that I know of is midwest.social, which looks pretty lively from what I can tell.

Anyway, so lemmy.world is becoming quite populated with all kinds of US-specific stuff, like communities for sports teams, sometimes with generic names that could be used for other things ( !bears@lemmy.world ), states/cities like !texas@lemmy.world or even !politics@lemmy.world (while !uspolitics@lemmy.world also exists), with other instances also having duplicate comms.

I'm expecting Lemmy to have, at some point, and hopefully soon, an option to block entire instances so that we don't have to see posts especially that are country-specific. But I'll need to block all the baseball teams one by one if I want to browse all and try to find new things.

And I'm sure it would also be more convenient to have it all under one roof, just like everything about Germany is under feddit.de, and people from elsewhere can still visit if they like.

So, please someone make one? Or navigate people to the right one? Thank yooou

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[-] NotAPenguin@kbin.social 74 points 1 year ago

The US-defaultism that happens on the internet is very annoying

[-] Aux@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it's especially annoying when you live in a different English speaking country. I don't give a shit about your pounds in the chicken recipe.

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

That's right! Put dollars in the chicken recipe!

Anyway that's my two cents.

[-] zeppo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Let’s say 2/100 of your country’s primary monetary unit. No reason to be US centric.

[-] mvee@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Pounds mass or pounds force? 😅

[-] Aux@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
[-] mvee@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I added 3 tbs lead but it tastes kinda funny

Do you plan on cooking in space?

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
[-] Aux@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, wtf is a cup of butter?

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

So refreshing on a cold day…

[-] Blazingflames6073@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I immediately became a bit upset when I read this post and realized US defaultism was going to happen on lemmy too now. Very annoying thing.

[-] UnicornKitty@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

The US! Oppressing everything else in the world since...the beginning!

[-] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Damn americans, they ruined america!

[-] Garrathian@fanaticus.social 1 points 1 year ago

I'm just dumb and forget the world wide web is, well, world wide haha. I just live in my own little bubble sometimes but i'm trying to be better about not blindly assuming the folks i interact with on here and other places are from the US

this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2023
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