Your first part about references was one of the things I disliked the most about Reddit where someone would make a pop culture reference and it would spiral into.a comment chain of just quotes with no originality, I’m glad that hasn’t caught on in Lemmy.
My second least favourite thing, US defaultism, is alive and well on Lemmy unfortunately. On Reddit you would be told it’s an American website and to deal with it, well this is the fediverse and I don’t want to deal with it. Just say where you are from or what country news are about, it’s not much to ask.
You can call it out when you see it, and we’re all better off for it when you do. One of the most recent comments I wrote was exactly that: someone trying to Americanize a comment chain about Pakistani elections. I shut that down without hesitation.
American or not, online we’re a global community, and it never hurts to remind of that reality when needed.
And also, doing so tends to fuck up the agenda of political trolls, who WANT to Americanize and divide every possible thread they can. Calling it out, you hit two birds with one stone: bonus.
Your first part about references was one of the things I disliked the most about Reddit where someone would make a pop culture reference and it would spiral into.a comment chain of just quotes with no originality, I’m glad that hasn’t caught on in Lemmy.
My second least favourite thing, US defaultism, is alive and well on Lemmy unfortunately. On Reddit you would be told it’s an American website and to deal with it, well this is the fediverse and I don’t want to deal with it. Just say where you are from or what country news are about, it’s not much to ask.
You can call it out when you see it, and we’re all better off for it when you do. One of the most recent comments I wrote was exactly that: someone trying to Americanize a comment chain about Pakistani elections. I shut that down without hesitation.
American or not, online we’re a global community, and it never hurts to remind of that reality when needed.
And also, doing so tends to fuck up the agenda of political trolls, who WANT to Americanize and divide every possible thread they can. Calling it out, you hit two birds with one stone: bonus.
Very refreshing indeed. Glad we have less to feel like we are all using a specific country’s website