I’ll go first. I wish Lemmy communities existed for: destroyed tanks. Ukraine War video report. sopranos duckposting. benzodiazepines.

I will comment more as I think of them.

  • Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee
    17·
    5 months ago

    More UK/Europe based communities

    Americans shoehorning (their own) politics and religion in every single comment thread is so unbelievably boring

      • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        10·
        5 months ago

        The majority of users are surely from the US, and so questions that don’t specify origin but whose answers may be more properly dictated by knowing their origin end up getting answered by the majority US user-base, even though the original person asking the question isn’t from the US.

        It’s fair that people from elsewhere shouldn’t always have to specify they’re from elsewhere because the entire internet does not exist just in the USA, the USA just has an outsized influence on the internet. I can see how that frustration could arise and why European-based communities would be helpful. It’s the same issue on reddit, if you’re not on a country-specific-level-sub, the default answers are from US users.

        It’s genuinely an issue, and I say this as an American, mostly because I’m guilty of it myself. We absolutely dominate the online discourse and usually default to assuming questions that don’t specify where they are about must be American. It’s a very Amerocentric view of the world and the internet.

        +1 for good UK/European communities.

        • SorteKanin@feddit.dk
          4·
          5 months ago

          The majority of users are surely from the US

          Hmm citation needed? I’m not so sure a majority is from the US, even if US users is the largest group.

          What I find most annoying is stuff like /c/news and /c/politics (on any instance) being actually only about US news or US politics. And then you need /c/world_news to be actual news from around the world. I wish more instances did what Beehaw did and made /c/news into the world news community and then made /c/usnews to be… well, US news.

        • Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee
          3·
          5 months ago

          Well put, but my point was that politics and religion shouldn’t ever be mentioned unless you want to start an argument. It’s just not a thing in civilised countries. You just don’t talk about it because nothing you say will change anyone’s beliefs about either subject in any way whatsoever, and it’s just antagonistic.

          Americans will bring politics or religion into meme threads, shitposts, casual conversation, comic strips etc etc

          If you’re not on a political sub or a news sub, you’re here for a laugh, and fuck me neither of those subjects is ever humourous

          Pls stop 😅

          • Rockthisrobot@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            5 months ago

            my point was that politics and religion shouldn’t ever be mentioned unless you want to start an argument

            Firstly, I agree that there is a time and a place and a lot of people seem to not know the boundaries.

            That being said, bringing up a controversial subject isn’t always just about a fight. It might seem like it is, but sometimes we just want to discuss an issue.

            Also, even arguing has its merit. While you’re not going to change the mind of the person you’re arguing with, you might sway the opinions of bystanders.

            But yeah, I agree keep it out of shitposts.