A few examples include s*x questions on askreddit, “this” comments, nolife powermods, jokes being more frequent than actual answers

  • DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone
    3·
    1 year ago

    Reddit became too America focused. Most of the posts were about America or assumed everyone reading was American. It felt very exclusionary.

    • princessyukon@lemmy.ca
      1·
      1 year ago

      I think this will remain a problem on any platform that includes enough Americans. The general public in America just seems unaware of anything outside America.

      I think this stems from their education system, what they (don’t) broadcast on mass-media and how normal and even laudable they consider fanatical nationalism to be (did you know they require children to swear devotion to the nation state every day at school!?).

      In any case, I don’t think this is a problem that any platform that wants to include Americans can avoid.

    • Letstakealook@lemm.ee
      11·
      1 year ago

      I saw this complaint on reddit a lot, but at the end of the day, it was a US based site. Of course there will be mostly Americans and they will default to that understanding.

      Also, the US is a large country. It’s not like Europe where you’re a day trip away from 5 other countries. Most Americans can’t afford travel outside the US, so they only have exposure to the many cultures within the US.

      The hate Americans get for not catering discussion on a US based site to the global community is really what’s strange.

        • APassenger@lemmy.one
          0·
          1 year ago

          I’m curious, which part is a myth? I only see facts and not all of them paint America as great.

          These things exist elsewhere, besides. Just not always in “the West.”

            • Letstakealook@lemm.ee
              0·
              1 year ago

              Let me simplify this. Would you go to a forum with an address in .ar and complain that the discussion doesn’t pertain to you? You wouldn’t, but you are just blindly hateful of Americans for whatever reason.

                • APassenger@lemmy.one
                  01·
                  1 year ago

                  America is far from a monolith. Our states roughly equate to different European countries with vastly different cultures, foods, rights and laws.

                  We just speak dialects that are almost all the same and roll up under one political entity. It is not so dissimilar than the EU, otherwise.

                  We are, in many practical terms a forced confederation with a shared Constitution. There are those, like in the EU, who want out.

                  Edit: the shared single language is one of our under-recognized super-powers. I can travel this huge land mass and communicate viably everywhere. It is key to our cultural impact. It is accidental, but helpful to us. Except when we have people who dislike our impact and become hostile.

            • APassenger@lemmy.one
              01·
              1 year ago

              Which Americans are you talking to? We know there are other countries and cultures. We just aren’t responsible for learning deeply about all of them. No one is.

              You’re using some strong, broad strokes that aren’t reflective of my experience at all.