I hate how anything without "world" in its name is just about the US

Not on Lemmy. Om Lemmy you're 50% German, 50% American unless proven otherwise.

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.

If I was using a website called "Facebloke" that was well known to have been made and ran in the UK, I'd assume everyone on it was British.

...Anything written in English, and you can usually filter that even more by just looking for people using too many U's.

the default country

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.

Haha. Like anyone lives outside the US

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.

To be fair, the US has the largest number of English-speakers of any country in the world. As a first language, it has five times as many native English speakers as second place (the UK). It also has one of the highest Internet penetration rates in the world, meaning most of those English-speakers are also Internet users.

The US is a single country that is three-quarters the population of the entire European Union, and nearly all of its inhabitants speak English and use the Internet. So yes, if you pick a random user on an English social media page, odds are very good that person is an American. If you were to guess any random English-speaking Internet user's nationality, "American" is the best possible guess. But go on a Spanish language forum or a French language forum and nobody will assume you're American.

Consequently, Americans generate the majority or large plurality of English-language Internet content.

Edit: Please stop replying with "English is a lingua franca for non-native English speakers". I never made the claim that someone who uses English on the Internet is likely a native English speaker. I am claiming the converse—that people who natively speak English are likely to use English on the Internet.

Maybe you should try posting more often then ;)

Assumed by Americans which is an important detail.

I don't care where y'all are from as long as you're not a dumbass dickhead.

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!

I wonder if a news community with a "no mentioning the US" rule would work. Not out of any hate, just as something arbitrary like "don't use the letter E".

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.

Jimmy Eat USA

i live in DC and we get tagged for everything world politics.

forgive me for not caring if fvey countries get lumped into uspol.

The SMX "World Championship" just finished. It only takes place in the US.

as a person that came from 3rd world country, i relate T_T

Howdy y'all bros. My name is Todd Bonzalez and I am from one of the great American places foreigners know from your TV shows.

As an American who just wants things organized clearly, I find it annoying too

I mean, we did invent this cursed network. It's our job to ruin it.

its just the loudest voices that seem to drive the world.

This is lemmy.world, you would have to join lemmy.{country} for lands beyond the fruited plains and purple mountains majesty.

Well Al Gore invented the internet so the internet is more a.USA thing 🤣🤣

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 completely understand the sentiment.

I also understand the sentiment that the internet is effectively a US invention dating back at least to ARPAnet.

I guess what I'm suggesting is: can't we all just get along? At least we can now all communicate with each other.

You mean anything without world in its name?

It does make it fun to stir the pot

Don't be so self-involved. Try visit China for once and you will get sick of the word "China", it's literally in everything there :), like communist party's intelligence service :)

I mean the us dwarfs other english speaking countries

network invented in America look inside Americans

How could this have happened?

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This is why:

The US has more allocated IPv4 addresses and more users per allocated IPv4 address than any other country, by wide margins - and IPv6 adoption is not that widespread yet. It is entirely rational to assume that an English-speaking person on the Internet is from the US, given no other information.

reference

Aren't the majority of English speakers from the US?

EDIT: The USA has 3x the population of the UK and Australia combined and the USA appears to be the home of approx 60% of native English speakers. However there are billions of speakers if you include it as a 2nd language. Which Americans don't speak 2nd languages so we obviously don't count that.

This meme is essentially Al-Qaeda's motive for doing 9/11.