if there were countries in Europe that were as politically idiotic as the US has been for literal decades I’m sure you’d read about that place more than the US.
I live in Canada and as far as political news goes here…it’s dreadfully boring and I imagine it’s the same for most of Europe. It’s always been like that. even regular news here it’s boring. nothing dramatic happens because unlike the US most of the world has their shit together when compared to the US.
I miss the days of boring US politics
Because in a 24 hour news cycle the most interesting story gets the most airtime? Also we likely outnumber you on any engagement. I can’t tell you the last time I saw a story from Canada or Germany or the uk that beats felonious demented white nationalist pedophile attempts to ruin entire world in narcissistic crashout. Even if a euro story is important, There are likely less lemmy users who even have a chance of seeing the story much less understand the context enough to engage. Even chinese people are engaging with America’s shit show on xiaohongshu. It’s a matter of worldwide impact on every platform. Everyone here to watch Nero fiddle
Because the squeaky wheel gets the grease.
Chaos makes the news. Boring doesn’t. Countries that are currently being run by mostly functional adults don’t find themselve in the news as much as countries that are a literal dumpster fire being fed by boat-loads of orange toddler piss.
Ergo…the U.S. news is everywhere at the moment.
In pretty sure my instance is based in Germany, or somewhere in Europe at least. That doesn’t really matter. You can belong to an instance hosted anywhere, and also I don’t trust data privacy at all in the US so I’d rather not have my home instance be hosted here.
Presumably somewhere close enough that they don’t want to risk breaking UK law as it’s blocked here. Not sure if any other instances will follow. I think all of lemmy is probably against UK law now. Hope we will always have some instances or its small enough to get ignored.
Because the average US citizen doesn’t speak a 2nd language while most of Europeans know English, so the focus shifts towards that
We have Florida Man and Europe doesnt
Because people engage with it regardless of wether they live there or not.
Because US news are the funniest and the most absurd.
USA! USA! USA! We’re number ONE!
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A lot of English speaking people live in the USA. ~340M people.
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I see tons of news about the major world powers, and there just happens to be a lot going on in the USA rn.
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I think we might be noisy.
Because most users of lemmy are from the US.
The US has a lot of vital internet servers, is the source of a lot of current population movies and TV shows, and other widespread things that make people pay attention to it.
Internally, a lot of our “news” channels are sensationalized for higher ratings, so if we want to actually learn anything we tend to seek out the internet. Specifically, other “regular folks” online, who can maybe relate.
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Is it? Or is it a question of which communities you’re looking at? Because mine isn’t.
Yes, you can set that up. But most news communities such as /world, /worldnews, /news, and others are very US-centric. I wonder why that has to be the case when it should be clear to everyone by now that the White House is employing troll tactics.
Because the USA has so much military and economic power that it is the axis about which the English-speaking world turns. And it is making wildly stupid choices in its foreign and domestic policies, which gets peoples attention from both potential impacts to their own countries and out of sheer horror and exasperation. Finally, it has a huge population relative to any other english speaking nation, and its citizens will tend to vote as a bloc about things they find interesting. And the things they find interesting will typically involve their own nation. Germans, for example, will do this too - but there are far fewer germans than americans, so in an open market, American news gets the most votes from its citizens and ends up on top of the stack.
This is what I wanted to suggest. There’s just a lot of news happening in America right now, and because of America’s position in the western world that news has widespread implications.
Politics in America are also very dramatic, so the stories might drive more engagement from people into that sort of thing.
Greatest show on earth, bby!
Nah, bullshit. Most news networks and media houses have marketing teams to spread their news links and artificially “boost” their links all over the place. Lemmy has these folks who pretend to be normal users but tend to only post news from specific websites or post tangetial links and then add in their own. And, they get to the top fast.
It’s social media marketing 101.
Normal lemmy users who actually got here to escape the vote manipulations or whatever in other networks usually post archived links, summary, or even the whole article in the text. You don’t normally see that with marketing accounts. And I’ve seen that’s grow ever more as the community gets larger.
But continue to think the US is the center of the universe and there’s no manipulation or marketing going on at all. It’s working out so well for it, they made a TV reality star president, TWICE.
But you do you on your axis.
I don’t know for other countries, but I read French news in French. So the French instance is way smaller than the English speaking ones
Would that be J Lai Lu? And how would you make it show more often in your feed and us news show less often? That’s the kind of balance I’d like to get, useful us news about once a day and useful French news about once a day, instead of 10x of same Epstein news and 0 French/whatever
That’s why we moved our french communities there, on jlai.lu. so if you have a jlai.lu account, you can set your timeline to local and then every news will be french.
There is another solution : PieFed. With PieFed account, you can subcribe to the flux i created :
- https://piefed.social/f/cafe_fr (a cosy place where news are removed)
- https://piefed.social/f/actu_fr (there is also canada, swiss and belgium. For the worst news, such us US, gaza…are in Actualités difficiles)
- https://piefed.social/f/peertube_fr (a curratod list of french peertube content)
- https://piefed.social/f/societe_fr (for feminism, 0 waste, less cars, deaf…)
Oh i forgot, on piefed, we have a keyword filter. You can add trump, musk, eipstein and then ask piefed to hide or blur those posts.
I hope it helped ya somehow :)
I appreciate all the info, unfortunately there’s several things that confuse me.
What’s piefed, is this an instance or an app?
What do I do if I want Australia, France and a few other countries, do I need accounts in multiple instances? How do I find them? Can I have all of their posts collated simultaneously in my racoon app?
What’s a flux?
Is there a book “Lemmy for Dummies”? Or perhaps a ted talk course to teach me basics?
PieFed is a software that support flair, tags, multicommu…your instance has opened a PieFed instance there : https://piefed.world/
The account on jlai.lu allow ya to use local shorting so you can switch to french content or english easily as we do.
A flux, is a piefed feature, this is a multicommunity. They can be public (shared to everyone) or private. So you can create flux based on countries, language, whatever come to your mind…on subcribe to an available flux, import existing one to your piefed instance…
Would that be J Lai Lu?
J’lai lu has news but it isn’t the only thing. it is the best I know but there might be something better. I don’t know how to search for communities by language. I actually read newspapers at the library when I want to read French news
And how would you make it show more often in your feed and us news show less often?
I sort by scale for this
Interesting, thank you :)
on lemmy.world these are all us news. not unlike reddit.
pay other inatances a visit and see if you like anything else better.
Have you posted articles and discussions relevant to your country?
Can you parrot anything else?
Typical dismissive answer that I see on here. You know very well US political BS has infiltrated most communities by now.
Not in my experience. If you don’t want to see politics there is a robust blocking system on Connect (and other apps I’m sure) that you can use.
Alright lemme just block every community brb
Keywords, friend. Keywords.
Ok then let me block the whole English dictionary then
This would be less of a problem if Lemmy moderators actually gave a fuck anout the quality of their communities.
Have you posted articles and discussions relevant to your country?
