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I can't really think of a reason for that as Reddit is hated somewhat equally by "both" sides of the spectrum. It's just something I find interesting.

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[-] muddybulldog@mylemmy.win 89 points 1 year ago

Lemmy is much less US-centric than Reddit.

[-] blanketswithsmallpox@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago

I wonder if there are demographics by IP already? TBH most of the threads I've been in have felt very US Centric. I also came with the great reddit migration too though.

[-] HotDogFingies@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

On my feed, at least, I have my frontpage set to whatever the kbin equivalent to "all" is. I see lots of other languages beyond English populating - particularly German. The Lemmy instance I chose when I initially made my way to the fediverse operates out of China. They're chill over there.

I dunno. I think if you're only finding people discussing the US here, then you've probably accidentally pigeonholed yourself based on your own interests. The fediverse is diverse.

I mean yeah. Being only English speaking with gringo Spanish doesn't let me understand memes in German or any of the other various non-english speaking magazines lol.

English is the defacto lingua franca though. Particularly on the web. The diversity I've seen still heavily leans English, and western, which makes plenty of sense.

[-] Diprount_Tomato@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

How do you get more languages?

[-] TWeaK@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Lemmy was initially created by communists.

It's still in the process of being created, and the communism is a bit less in your face now alongside there being other contributors to the code, but that's how it started.

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

Is it? Just look at the comments here - the thought is about political left and right and yet almost everybody is talking about conservatives, that's a sure sign of Americans.

Plus I bet a good portion of the extreme left here are Americans disillusioned with their government, swinging hard into the other extreme.

[-] maynarkh@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago

Thank fuck for that.

[-] Ignacio@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Prove it, because I only see US-centric posts while browsing /all.

And no, America is not the US.

[-] muddybulldog@mylemmy.win 3 points 1 year ago

Your ALL is amplifying the highest engagement posts from the largest instances, particularly lemmy.world, which is definitely US-centric due to it being the largest open registration instance during the exodus... Go ahead and switch to your instances LOCAL and see what original content is being posted on sopuli.xyz. Quite a difference. https://sopuli.xyz/?dataType=Post&listingType=Local&page=1&sort=Active

[-] Ignacio@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

The thing is that I don't have those issues on Lemmy, because I usually browse by /local, both on this server and on beehaw. But I had to block lemmy.world with my user on Kbin due to that problem you were pointing out. And miraculously, I can see content from Kbin, lemmy.ml, blahaj, beehaw sopuli, and so on, because there is no way to browse only local content on Kbin as it can be done on Lemmy.

[-] Diprount_Tomato@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Really? I've only seen US related stuff here

[-] muddybulldog@mylemmy.win 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How many of your subscribed communities lie outside of lemmy.world? Very possible you've pigeonholed yourself. World almost certainly has a heavy US bias as it was the largest instance with open registration during the exodus.

Lemmy is made up of a ton of instances, many of which have quite limited US-related content. Posts from smaller instances may not rise to the top of World but they do elsewhere. Whereas World posts are going to rise across most instances, due to sheer volume. Where the posts come from is not as indicative of diversity as where the comments and votes come from.

[-] Diprount_Tomato@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Wait there are others apart from world?

[-] muddybulldog@mylemmy.win 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
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