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Am I right? (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 1 year ago by Ignacio@sopuli.xyz to c/memes@sopuli.xyz

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First panel:

What lemmy.world should be (a map that shows all the countries in the world)

Second panel:

What lemmy.world actually is (a map that only shows United States, including Alaska)

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[-] thelastknowngod@lemm.ee 36 points 1 year ago

I see German and French posts everyday.

[-] TheFermentalist@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

I do too, as well as Dutch, Australian and New Zealand

[-] Nepenthe@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Had to block all the Dutch and German communities/domains I could find. Not out of spite and I still feel bad about it, but just so one thing in my feed would be in a language I speak.

And..for some reason, OP doesn't think there are enough Chinese and Russians on Lemmy?

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

I know there are Chinese users on Mastodon. But since I joined the fediverse last year, I didn't see any Russian user anywhere, or any Chinese user outside Mastodon.

[-] Ignacio@sopuli.xyz -4 points 1 year ago

With my user on Kbin, browsing /all, the only place I see international stuff is on c/worldnews, and not everyday.

[-] XTL@sopuli.xyz 31 points 1 year ago

You are not right and this is s toxic assumption.

[-] Ignacio@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago

It's what I see on Kbin, browsing through all.

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago

How do you see where the users are from?

[-] oktoberpaard@feddit.nl 5 points 1 year ago

Doesn’t Kbin filter based on your language preferences? And even then, English is used by non-native speakers (such as myself) as well, because it’s the language that most people understand and it allows you to speak to a much larger user base.

[-] baronvonj@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Lemmy has a language filter in your user settings. And every post/comment has a field to specify language. When I first started I couldn't see most comments because I didn't have the right languages selected in my profile.

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

I don't mind seeing content in English or other languages. A different thing is to understand what is written in those other languages, except Spanish and maybe Portuguese, French or Italian. But I don't remember seeing any language filter. But I know there is a language filter on Lemmy.

[-] oktoberpaard@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

I’ve checked and you can find it on the settings page in the general section. I’ve briefly tested it and it seems to do what it says, but of course it fully depends on comments and posts being correctly labeled. I suspect that many people don’t correctly label their posts and comments. I know I don’t.

[-] DBT@artemis.camp 4 points 1 year ago

Didn’t even have to scroll ten posts down. On Kbin. Just now.

[-] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago

I have sumerian username but I'm European. I speak American and European fluently.

[-] gerryflap@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

How does one speak European? I wasn't aware we had a universal European language

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

I was joking. Sorry for not making this clear.

[-] saltesc@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Oooh. Asian is my main language so it was a bit hard to understand.

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I speak a little Asian too. Conichiwa

[-] gerryflap@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

Haha no problem. Sometimes I miss jokes like this

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

Don't worry.

Or to say it in African: hakuna matata

[-] kraftpudding@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

I think international users are just less likely to post local stuff outside of designated communities, because even if there are more international users then they know, 99% will not care about their local issue. For example a swede is less likely to share swedish news and meme, because it is either inaccessible or irrelevant for non swedes, whether they are American or not. But english speaking content is likely to be accessible to most non swedes and swedes.

Americans however mostly don't share this consideration and just post America specific stuff everywhere.

[-] vudu@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Greetings from Croatia! Checkout !hrvatska@kbin.social if you speak the language. Please, I'm all alone.

[-] zecg@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Ima nas na tucete

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

Some time ago (months, or years, I don't know), I tried to learn Croatian on my own. But I noticed it has the same problem as every other Slavic language: perfective and imperfective forms of verbs :S

[-] Emperor@feddit.uk 7 points 1 year ago

The English-language parts on the Net tend to skew American, which is why I picked Feddit.uk for my main account (I have one on L.W) and it's worked out nicely.

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago
[-] Ignacio@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

The map had low resolution, below 1000x1000. So, no Pacific Islands :(

[-] s12@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Why are some of our countries green?

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago

I guess the colors are arbitrary and no neighboring countries have the same color to make it easier to read the map

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

Major political party.

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

Green is good, it's the color of nature.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

That honestly makes sense. You should use a instance that is geographically close to you.

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

When browsing all, it doesn't matter whether the instance is in Australia or in Portugal. Because lemmy.world is the biggest one and all the content comes from there, that's what I see.

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