There should a seperate place for US news so we all can ignore it🙎♂️
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Wouldn't make a difference for me, I speak spanish so I can't post at all because every instance/community is english only.
Feels even worse when someone posts good news from my country but it's just propaganda and manipulated numbers, but since every actual critic was kicked out of mainstream media long ago, the fediverse won't accept whenever they post now and it wouldn't matter because they speak spanish anyway.Yes, I know I could host my own.
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Yeah. As a Canadian, I can't say that I'm not fucking sick of it. This America-centric bullshit has gone on for far too fucking long, and if there is one thing that I will thank Donald Trump for, it is finally giving me a socially acceptable justification for hating that entire fucking shit stain of a country.
Whoa! I never knew you were a Canuck. Glad you're better off.
But we should be used to this centric viewpoint. We have Toronto and our own country's fixation on the toronto-niagra-montreal Triangle of Journalistic Relevance, outside of which no one and nothing matters.
I try not to hate the yanks just because the news fixates on them for the same reason our news fixates in its own way. And I've met so many smart and caring yanks that are just not being heard in their own country.
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Isn’t this only a problem because many users are American? Then naturally many posts will be about America.
How is “world news” defined?
Yes. It's still a problem. What's your point here?
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It's not their fault they're taught that they are the centre of the whole world.
Their behaviour is not their fault, but it's still their responsibility.
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If its an international news sub I think one post form each country perday is fair. I don't need to have a minute by minute update about drumps bowel movements and how awful they are.
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American geography teacher preparing for class:
And yet we still can't identify half our own states on a map. To be fair, there are a lot of rectangles.
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I had a brief scroll through your history and it looks like you like to post a fair bit about the USA. Some trump meme, something about Tesla in San Francisco, Taylor Swift meme, Trevor Noah cllip...
...be the change you want to see..?
Of the four examples listed, three are just up bullshit.
- Tesla flew off a bridge which happened to be in San Francisco. Would've posted a similar thing if it was in London or Kuala Lampur.
- Taylor Swift happens to be American. Her fanbase is global.
- Trevor Noah is a comedian born in South Africa, talking about comedy festival in Saudi, being attended by comedians from everywhere.
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Same bro, same! I have blocked 10+ communities and keywords through Voyager app.
I do enjoy my home page, but I do like to scroll through /all, and that's where I scroll going through USA news.Edit: USA users are also aggressive when you complain, like you are wrong, not letting other people know what's going on.
please share those words.
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Whoa! I never knew you were a Canuck. Glad you're better off.
But we should be used to this centric viewpoint. We have Toronto and our own country's fixation on the toronto-niagra-montreal Triangle of Journalistic Relevance, outside of which no one and nothing matters.
I try not to hate the yanks just because the news fixates on them for the same reason our news fixates in its own way. And I've met so many smart and caring yanks that are just not being heard in their own country.
Newfie too. I'm the best of the best. So definitely aware of how centric the rest of Canada can be, trust me.
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Yes. It's still a problem. What's your point here?
The point is that the solution is to sub to various country-specific news subs instead of general news subs.
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Such places do exist though? e.g. !politics@piefed.social says:
Any politics anywhere in the world. Inevitably it’ll be 99% US stuff, but that’s not a rule.
And there's !usa@midwest.social:
Welcome to !usa@midwest.social, where you can share and converse about the different things happening all over/about the United States.
And !usnews@beehaw.org:
News about and pertaining to the United States and its people.
There also used to be !usa@ponder.cat and !news@dubvee.org, although both were on instances that no longer exist.
Also, "World" communities outside of Lemmy.World do a MUCH better job of allowing USA news but not letting it dominate the feeds - e.g. !news@beehaw.org.
You may want to broaden your horizons beyond only those large communities on Lemmy.World - especially since those subscriber stats are fake (the Users / month are likely better but the Subscriber counts in particular include accounts of people who tried Lemmy for a brief time before noping back to Reddit, never to return). An analogy: leave the toxic sheeple to argue over how to fix their Windows machines, while you embrace the beauty of learning to use Linux - it takes some slightest of effort on your part, but you will be glad that you did.
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The point is that the solution is to sub to various country-specific news subs instead of general news subs.
No, it's for Americans to stop spamming the general news... ahm... subs? You need to go back.
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No, it's for Americans to stop spamming the general news... ahm... subs? You need to go back.
They aren't spamming. There are just more americans, who are posting at the same rate as other people from other nations.
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That’s a whole load of strawmanning.
What else do you expect from TrickDacy? They hate anyone they made up in their head as the bad guys.
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I never said the problem was that he was an American now, did I? I repeatedly added caveats after the fact about how he's a lunatic. The worst was "an aggressively American lens" which I also stand by given it's a world news community.
moderated by an American who has refused to acknowledge or accept terms from other countries outside of the United States
Seen through an aggressively American lens
an American being the be-all and end-all of reality when they're not even plugged into it themselves.
My issue is that it's a world news community run by an apologetic American who is also an asshole. That perfect storm of stupid. Not because he is an American alone.
Edit: Jesus check this users modlog... They seem to only exist on lemmy to get into petty slapfights over their own failed reading comprehension. They have so many recent mod interactions that if you click on page 2 you're still under "A Month Ago".
You can't expect Trick to read! He hates you for being right and his favorite power tripping bastard being proven wrong.
Edit: Because Trick is blocked due to being a troll:
- No I don't have an alt you fucking weirdo.
- No I'm not a bot because I have a memory of active users. "Everyone I don't like is a bot!" Is the argument of people with no point in life.
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Give it a fucking break, dude. JL is not Satan and not nearly as bad as you make him out to be.
Yeah, he did some power tripping dumb shit and can't handle being questioned. Yeah, the admins handled that late. If it continues, I do believe they'll deal with it.
But he's not racist, and he's not half the other things you've accused him of. Just because you didn't fully get your way doesn't make it his fault.
You know the latest thing he's been shit on for? Not allowing US news in !world. It's incredibly stupid. And he's been defeated and overrun.
You know he's human, right?
But he’s not racist, and he’s not half the other things you’ve accused him of. Just because you didn’t fully get your way doesn’t make it his faul
Ask him if black lives matter. Ask him about Matt Walsh.
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Unfortunately, that community is also moderated by an American (JordanLund) who has refused to acknowledge or accept terms from other countries outside of the United states, has banned Canadians for 'misinformation' when they were merely using Canadian political terms he didn't understand, and has argued with the admins of lemmy.world that he did nothing wrong. The admins warned him about the situation and publicly he refuses to back down.
That community can't be trusted. It's not impartial and not remotely trustworthy. It is seen through an aggressively American lens.
This is a breakdown of some of the shit that he's done. It's a repost of something I made that got deleted when I left LW. This is that original post if you want to see the comments of him "defending" himself by making it a thousand times worse. This was the last straw for me and why I left Lemmy.world, deleting all my content and setting up on dbzer0 instead with new communities to boot.
I am fucking done accepting an American being the be-all and end-all of reality when they're not even plugged into it themselves.
https://lemmy.world/comment/20024446
And here's PJ slandering you because he knows you can't read him.
Pug is shouting into a void at us, still making shit up and pretending to be on the left as he hates anarchists, communists, and anyone vaguely against the status quo. Gotta love how he's just so normal.
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Jesus check this users modlog...
Yes some people don't delete their accounts to hide their "controversy".
It's pretty telling you get this offended and personal over one fair critique
And it's pretty telling you hate someone documenting your favorite moderator's actions.
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It could be worse. You could live here and have everything in that news keep you in a constant state of distress and anxiety.
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If I report every post I see not fit, I will get banned most likely.
And they will say that we support Trump and that we don't let people know about Trump for the 100th time.If moderators ban users for reporting posts which break community rules that the moderators wrote, those are some pretty incompetent moderators.
