My All Feed is basically empty now or consists of posts with zero or very few comments.
I love the filter option, but it has also made it quite clear what is being pushed the most on Lemmy.
I definitely get that! And it is definitely an issue. Personally, I feel like the state of the world is constantly knocking on my door. It's almost claustrophobic. I vote for parties and politicians I believe in, I try to avoid supporting the ones who try to fuck up our world by not using their products or buy them.
But besides that, I not sure what else I can do, and I'm definitely up for suggestions.
Thanks! And thank you for a civil discussion. I will at some point look it up. If you have some resources you could recommend, that would be nice. I guess there a lot of good but also bad readings on the subject out there.
I've volunteered a lot before I got kids, where I was mentoring children of refugees. But having two kids under the age of 5 is a full time job beside my full time job, so currently there's not many hours left of the day to do volunteering.
But I do still try to do small things here and there to improve the world around me.
Even if we do all of what you mentioned, globalist news of dooming issues where we as individuals can't do fuck all are constant. Hell, I've seen more news on that white woman shot by ICE than news about Europe overall, not even my home country. Not even important news, but any news at all.
My Home is more sane than All, but it's sad the amount of focus US politics get on a social media that's mostly Europe hosted.
Voting is a 5 minute activity once every few years
Local races>general primary>midterm primary>midterm election>general.
Its genuinely more important you make sure another Biden doesn't win the primary than to vote in the general. If a Biden or Harris does win, your vote in the general is useless since they're unelectable, and if they still somehow win, they're going to betray the base by continuing and expanding republican policies until the republicans are back in power.
Yes, reading every horrible news article 24-7 is your MORAL DUTY and any attention to anything else, even if due to mental health concerns, makes you one of THEM and a BAD PERSON. Any distraction whatsoever is EVIL.
Have you considered the effect our emotional landscape has over our mental health, our effectiveness to pursue the world we want and the wellbeing of those around us? Sometimes people need distractions, friend.
Why do I have to read ten reposts of everything happening in the US if it changes nothing and the comments are always the same? How is every little US thing ‘important’ to the rest of the world?
Let's consult my feed:
Minneapolis hotel worker fired over 'doxxing' of ICE agents
Oh my God! Hotel worker fired in Minneapolis? What has the world come to? How will leaders of the countries respond to this issue?
I don't care about things that happen in my country cause rest of the citizens don't. I have stopped reading news in the last 3-4 years cause the situation is hopeless.
I believe not reading news is what got us here. Too many have given up and don't take a stance, which allows the situation to just get worse and worse.
But, I also stopped reading news. I stopped the day Trump won the election. The world is a shit show and I won't allow my mood to get dragged down every day. I have a family and kids and I want them to have a good life and a fun dad to be around.
If things like what happens with the ICE raids are happening, the Epstein files, dictatorship suddenly threatens everything I'm not burying my head in the sand, but I want to dose the amount of news I consume.
I believe not reading news is what got us here. Too many have given up and don't take a stance, which allows the situation to just get worse and worse.
Both people not reading good news sources and people reading bad news sources is what got us here. It lead to tons of people voting for a conman who lied to their face after his toadies told his base them exactly what he'd do, and tons of people staying home when it mattered.
I know voting is one of the least effective ways of making change, but people have to realize that not voting is a great way to allow negative change to take hold.
Our cat is not much into catching mice. We once lived in an allotment house, which is mostly a shed. We once had a mouse in our bedroom, and we had to wake up the cat. We placed her near the mouse, so she could see it. She just lied down and continued to sleep.
When my cat sees a bird he goes low to the ground, because he knows that's what you're supposed to do, and then shuffles awkwardly towards them. Usually they fly off and he looks relieved.
My issue with that is that I would like getting the raw deal once in a while to not stay uninformed, something like multiple custom filters would be cool. All we have right now is the subscribed list and the All list, which is filtered. Would be nice to have several filter lists.
No one is getting uninformed! Especially when tv, internet and people speak about USA and Trump 24/7. It hardly to miss any of that, except if you live in the mountains with no internet or tv.
Same, I have a similar conundrum. Everytime I go longer than a few days without checking US news some unspeakable shit goes down. Like a dictator getting kidnapped.
The constant battle between wanting to stay informed and the urge to live peacefully as an off-grid mountain man lol
Those have too much of the doom and gloom. I want juuust enough to know what's happening, but not to know every single thing that's happening if you know what I mean.
ever since Donald Trump became the president of the USA, i have heard from irl people or news that: the "arrest" of Venezuelas president, threats to conquer Greenland, the US vice president being mad about my country banning a russian supported fascist from being a candidate, Israel funding and support and thats it i think
though it does make sense considering i dont really have a way to affect the USA and all of those things are about international events
I'm still quite new to Lemmy. I still don't quite get how it all works, haha. I'm using the Thunder app (don't ask me why), and when I go to settings it's the second option I'm presented with. Then you just add keywords for the things you'd like to filter out.
Pushed, as in malicious actors are trying to spread evil propaganda, not that it's what people currently care about because of the impending fucking doom looming over us because of those things you listed... 🤪
It's just saying that many posts don't have a language specified. So if you disable ‘undetermined’, all those posts disappear from your feed. It's best to select ‘undetermined’ and whatever languages you read.
It's impossible because Trump keeps doing things it can still be 3:00 in the morning over there and he'll do something. All Europe seems to have is the Germans, and they keep posting in their weird secret language.
Whoa whoa whoa whoa! Hang on a second. We didn't elect a king. You don't elect a king. We elected a dictator.
There's a difference.
Kings are born royalty. This jackass got elected. We CHOOSE him. This is OUR fault. Whereas with kings, nobody chooses them. They're just born into that role.
I don't think we did though. Before even one vote was counted he was bragging that the results don't matter because he has all the votes he needs. He literally announced that he'd rigged an election and nobody did anything about it.
The US is like turning on a morning soap opera. What absurd and dramatic contrivances have they come up with this time that could never happen in real life?
I assume it's because the life in Europe is better so people don't need to escape their reality as much. You can go out and see a cool castle or ride a train or go check out a new country. And then you can get really, really, really good food that won't give you diarrhea like the food here in the US.
Si lo sé, soy uno de esos. Pero igual, si el gobierno no inspecciona las operaciones de los restaurantes, igual te da diarrea. Las veces que he ido a Europa he regresado en mejor condición de estómago.
Well yeah, if you only go to McDonald's or Taco Bell then you'll get diarrhea, but there's plenty of food and restaurants around the entirety of the us that has phenomenal food. However looking at your post history proves to me you don't care about facts and only about insulting people and their ideals, and seemingly everyone on the internet enjoys nothing but shitting on Americans no matter the circumstance, so I know this will fall on deaf ears.
Ouch!? You have very curious reading comprehension skills, it appears. I'm not shitting on Americans, i'm shitting on the relatively weak and ineffective governments at the local state of federal level, which tend to only serve the interests of folks with large amounts of money. I have a relatively sensitive stomach and I have been sick from all kinds of restaurants across the US.
You see, when you pay people minimum wage or less so in the case of tipped workers, their motivation to clean up and provide a great sanitary environment for everything is arguably lessened, don't you think? Further, our education system, being largely designed by large corporate interests aims to produce ignorant workers, people addicted to fast food, sugar and its derivatives. People who think food should be as cheap and fast as possible, as convenient as possible, and not worthy of sitting down and spending time, contemplating cooking it, growing it, eating with family, et cetera.
I remember walking around in Zwolle, Netherlands. I remember being embarrassed because I was the only one walking around while eating something. Everyone else sits down to eat. I never saw anyone eating in their car. Or eating while driving. I'm just saying this is illustrative of the difference between the US's fucked up food culture and the rest of the world's more mature and established food culture.
Have you ever been to Japan? Have you ever been to Europe? Have you ever been to South America? I have and I can tell you, on average, they truly respect food. Just walk through the center aisles of any American supermarket and tell me if those products suggest a culture which honors and values food? It's my humble opinion that no, not really.
If I'm full of shit and I'm doing something wrong, I am all ears and willing to do better, I promise you. You're gonna have to be real and not just throw daggers like that.
Unfortunately, thats a moot point to people who are staring down the barrel of our obscenely large military budget. I dont blame people for not liking us. I didn't vote for agent orange, but he is still representing our country 🤢
Eh, I give it a 4/10 right now. There's still some cool stuff to do and plenty of great people around, but generally, can't recommend it if you don't have to.
Alright then. I have not been following much, ironically. I think America is of course, trying to meddle in our oil refinery deal, after putting sanctions on our refinery (which was partially owned by Russia).
I am secretly very happy about the refinery problems...anyway, it starts work again 23th January.
There were warnings that we would not be able to recieve pay on our credit cards (no transfers) or something like that as well.
Jerry Seinfeld literally was that guy. All those "what's the deal with..." jokes are specifically making fun of Seinfeld. It's not calling out all hacks; just the one specific hack.
"USA stuff" is affecting the whole world right now. You are coming to check out an English based social network for non-"USA stuff". What did you expect?
I genuinely do not understand what the complaint is. If people are interested in non US things, please, by all means go discuss those things, but please don’t act like it’s weird how it is now.
I love checking Lemmy in the morning, and seeing all the German language Memes. I can't read them, since I don't know German, but I like knowing that they're over there, doing their thing ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Just take a look at the large communities on Lemmy:
News: American
Politics: American
Memes: American AND political
I could not find any European meme community at all, and if there was one, I have a hunch it would be flooded with things Trump said or Musk said or whatever is new on Netflix. I guess news about the Circular Economy or the microplastics regulation, being rolled out slowly and in phases, though absolutely affecting EUropeans' everyday lives, are just not quite as entertaining from an existentialist POV.
You can use an app that has a filter setting. I filter out every post containing words like trump and musk, as well as stupid articles with words like slammed. Makes a huge difference
I'd be fine with "no US politics". It's so annoying that ![email protected] is specifically and only about US politics. Because apparently, US politics are the only politics relevant for the world.
I think Lemmy ia harder to filter. My mastodon/sharkey feed is clean from being US-centric because there's content warning feature, people use it, and people describes their image well in the alt-text. That works well with filter. Even the public federated feed i still very clean.
Lemmy however is less robust on that. My Lemmy frontend is not helping either. It does have filter feature but I don't think it works. I can't say anything on Piefed, haven't tried it at all.
depends on who you follow I guess. I always follow people who I decide I want to keep seeing their post. I don't follow famous people if they post boring stuff. I also don't follow brand account that are just posting ads lol, like software brand account, etc. I follow 516 accounts and it's feels pretty lively.
Though with that amount of following I feel like there are few accounts that got their post buried because they post less frequently.
I mostly follow few gamedev people, few FOSS & tech people, non-tech related "fedi shitposters", and history/archaeology-posting accounts. The shitpoters, gamedev, and tech are the loudest. The latter posts semi-regularly but they just don't have other people interacted with it. Though I still enjoy their posts.
conversely, I had a alt account on different instance but I don't actively follow so much account, it feels so empty. though that particular instance have some funny people so the local feed is also quite funny sometimes. So which instance to join is also matters particularly for the local feed.
But it's also that personally now I'd get slightly annoyed when totally random post appears on my timeline on Bluesky and especially Tumblr. Especially Tumblr which keeps assuming I like taylor swift.
Hungarian here, I still couldn't convince my leftist friends in facebook group chats to leave that garbage site... Many of them are even IT professionals.
It is astounding to see everyone is just once again gobbling up the US regime propaganda on Iran despite knowing how much the mainsteam news lied about Palestine. Good guy trump is collectively punishing the Iranian people with crippling economic sanctions to "liberate them from their tyrannical regime"
Are people incapable of learning from anything the past two years?
The US and Israel are trying to destabilize Iran and create a civil war to make it like Syria and Lybia. This short video does a pretty good job explaining it https://www.youtube.com/shorts/52JKfb0Nl4E
I encourage Europeans and non Americans to post things that are relevant to their lives. I'm American and post things that are relevant to my life and that I have an opinion on. I'm curious about people's opinions on things that I'm uninformed about.
I am European.
Here's an image I took on Friday:
As an American I have no idea what this bizarre contraption is
That sign has a Z and letters with accent mark over it.
So I think this a picture of communism?
Come to California, we have a bunch of those. And they all suck.
They're all delayed by some stupidly long freight train blocking all the tracks.
Self driving cars of the world.
We can also post small cars (or of reasonable size). Ha!
I'm pretty sure we have those in usa. It has many names, like commuter train.
Man, as an American I wish I had that kind of picture to take.
but...where are the gestapo and soldiers to harass the people?
In the museum :)
Nice. Wanna get railed?😏
I envy your snow!
It is nice, though it's over now and raining.
Lovely shot.
Thanks!
Based!!!!!!
I have a filter on
My All Feed is basically empty now or consists of posts with zero or very few comments. I love the filter option, but it has also made it quite clear what is being pushed the most on Lemmy.
Sure, but i've just reached a point where I don't want to get bummed out, everytime I open a social media app.
There must be positive things to talk about, and not just the enshittification of everything and the end of the world.
I definitely get that! And it is definitely an issue. Personally, I feel like the state of the world is constantly knocking on my door. It's almost claustrophobic. I vote for parties and politicians I believe in, I try to avoid supporting the ones who try to fuck up our world by not using their products or buy them.
But besides that, I not sure what else I can do, and I'm definitely up for suggestions.
Thanks! And thank you for a civil discussion. I will at some point look it up. If you have some resources you could recommend, that would be nice. I guess there a lot of good but also bad readings on the subject out there.
I've volunteered a lot before I got kids, where I was mentoring children of refugees. But having two kids under the age of 5 is a full time job beside my full time job, so currently there's not many hours left of the day to do volunteering.
But I do still try to do small things here and there to improve the world around me.
Even if we do all of what you mentioned, globalist news of dooming issues where we as individuals can't do fuck all are constant. Hell, I've seen more news on that white woman shot by ICE than news about Europe overall, not even my home country. Not even important news, but any news at all.
My Home is more sane than All, but it's sad the amount of focus US politics get on a social media that's mostly Europe hosted.
Local races>general primary>midterm primary>midterm election>general.
Its genuinely more important you make sure another Biden doesn't win the primary than to vote in the general. If a Biden or Harris does win, your vote in the general is useless since they're unelectable, and if they still somehow win, they're going to betray the base by continuing and expanding republican policies until the republicans are back in power.
Yes, reading every horrible news article 24-7 is your MORAL DUTY and any attention to anything else, even if due to mental health concerns, makes you one of THEM and a BAD PERSON. Any distraction whatsoever is EVIL.
Have you considered the effect our emotional landscape has over our mental health, our effectiveness to pursue the world we want and the wellbeing of those around us? Sometimes people need distractions, friend.
There is literally nothing I can do about this.
There is literally nothing I can do about this.
All I can do about this is be mindful of my own carbon footprint, and recycle as much as possible.
There is literally nothing I can do about this.
You are part of the problem.
Would you like to share how you think i could become part of the solution?
Lest I end up feeling guilty for making fun of you and your dipshit post, do you have any developmental issues I should be aware of?
My cat is better at barking than you are :-)
Also, my dad can beat up your dad, or something like that.
Not that I'm aware of. Go nuts.
Why do I have to read ten reposts of everything happening in the US if it changes nothing and the comments are always the same? How is every little US thing ‘important’ to the rest of the world?
Let's consult my feed:
Oh my God! Hotel worker fired in Minneapolis? What has the world come to? How will leaders of the countries respond to this issue?
I don't care about things that happen in my country cause rest of the citizens don't. I have stopped reading news in the last 3-4 years cause the situation is hopeless.
Same goes for USA.
I believe not reading news is what got us here. Too many have given up and don't take a stance, which allows the situation to just get worse and worse.
But, I also stopped reading news. I stopped the day Trump won the election. The world is a shit show and I won't allow my mood to get dragged down every day. I have a family and kids and I want them to have a good life and a fun dad to be around.
If things like what happens with the ICE raids are happening, the Epstein files, dictatorship suddenly threatens everything I'm not burying my head in the sand, but I want to dose the amount of news I consume.
Both people not reading good news sources and people reading bad news sources is what got us here. It lead to tons of people voting for a conman who lied to their face after his toadies told his base them exactly what he'd do, and tons of people staying home when it mattered.
I know voting is one of the least effective ways of making change, but people have to realize that not voting is a great way to allow negative change to take hold.
[email protected] is doing well so far
Cat posts never disappoints. I should contribute soon.
I would think mice would be anti-cat
Our cat is not much into catching mice. We once lived in an allotment house, which is mostly a shed. We once had a mouse in our bedroom, and we had to wake up the cat. We placed her near the mouse, so she could see it. She just lied down and continued to sleep.
When my cat sees a bird he goes low to the ground, because he knows that's what you're supposed to do, and then shuffles awkwardly towards them. Usually they fly off and he looks relieved.
Our cat is as dangerous and brave as Toulouse and also never grew bigger than kitten size.
She's have always been an indoor cat. We don't believe she would last long outside on her own, with her two functioning brain cells.
I can see why those are important, but I don't wanna be more angry lol
Along with your list, I have also blocked these communities. This is half list.
My issue with that is that I would like getting the raw deal once in a while to not stay uninformed, something like multiple custom filters would be cool. All we have right now is the subscribed list and the All list, which is filtered. Would be nice to have several filter lists.
No one is getting uninformed! Especially when tv, internet and people speak about USA and Trump 24/7. It hardly to miss any of that, except if you live in the mountains with no internet or tv.
But I don't watch TV and Lemmy IS my Internet these days.
People in my friends group stopped posting news stuff because they assume everyone's seen everything already lol
Same, I have a similar conundrum. Everytime I go longer than a few days without checking US news some unspeakable shit goes down. Like a dictator getting kidnapped.
The constant battle between wanting to stay informed and the urge to live peacefully as an off-grid mountain man lol
You can just say president, you don't have to carry water for Trump.
Website with News's exist too.
Those have too much of the doom and gloom. I want juuust enough to know what's happening, but not to know every single thing that's happening if you know what I mean.
I don't watch tv, I get my news from Lemmy and my friends don't talk about USA.
ever since Donald Trump became the president of the USA, i have heard from irl people or news that: the "arrest" of Venezuelas president, threats to conquer Greenland, the US vice president being mad about my country banning a russian supported fascist from being a candidate, Israel funding and support and thats it i think
though it does make sense considering i dont really have a way to affect the USA and all of those things are about international events
You telling something I did read many times. Thanks tho.
Yeah people have been talking about having less and less activity on Lemmy.
IMO it’s because of the content. The platform works flawlessly but unfortunately lemmy came about during a time that politics is being so pervasive.
It might be a general trend. I’m willing to bet all social media is slowly dying but the for profits inject bots to keep their numbers up.
I think i should look up the filter function... So far I just blocked the most communities in all which do not use englisch or German.
......really? You don't get tech/linux posts?
It's primarily Linux posts that's left haha. Luckily, I don't mind that, as I have recently started using Linux again.
I also blocked YouTube links because of the extreme amount of reposts of YouTube videos on here
How do I set that up?
I'm still quite new to Lemmy. I still don't quite get how it all works, haha. I'm using the Thunder app (don't ask me why), and when I go to settings it's the second option I'm presented with. Then you just add keywords for the things you'd like to filter out.
Pushed, as in malicious actors are trying to spread evil propaganda, not that it's what people currently care about because of the impending fucking doom looming over us because of those things you listed... 🤪
Global south content pls
Hahaha yerba. Priceless.
Do you have their languages enabled in your settings?
Cause otherwise you might not see them.
Huh good point. I had it default to undetermined which also had a tooltip that I won't see most content. So I unselected all, let's see
Edit: oh it said if that one is unselected most will not be seen. Select all then...?
It's just saying that many posts don't have a language specified. So if you disable ‘undetermined’, all those posts disappear from your feed. It's best to select ‘undetermined’ and whatever languages you read.
It's impossible because Trump keeps doing things it can still be 3:00 in the morning over there and he'll do something. All Europe seems to have is the Germans, and they keep posting in their weird secret language.
As someone that can read German, das ist keine Problem. Es war sehr gut für Deutsch zu lernen. (My German is shit tho)
It is. Aber das macht nichts, man kann dich trotzdem verstehen.
I'd love to make fun of European politics, there's no shortage of embarrassments.
not my fault my fellow Americans elected king dumbass.
Whoa whoa whoa whoa! Hang on a second. We didn't elect a king. You don't elect a king. We elected a dictator.
There's a difference.
Kings are born royalty. This jackass got elected. We CHOOSE him. This is OUR fault. Whereas with kings, nobody chooses them. They're just born into that role.
I don't think we did though. Before even one vote was counted he was bragging that the results don't matter because he has all the votes he needs. He literally announced that he'd rigged an election and nobody did anything about it.
That's not true, tons of voters heard that and stayed home to make sure he'd win and be the first republican in decades to win the popular vote.
Of course you can elect kings. It's called elective monarchy, there have been a few of those throughout history.
I'd welcome the Euro memes
Why does the world end partway through Greenland?
Future proofing the meme for the invasion of the US
Lolol
Surely you mean Blueredwhiteland?
Because you touch yourself at night.
The US is like turning on a morning soap opera. What absurd and dramatic contrivances have they come up with this time that could never happen in real life?
I assume it's because the life in Europe is better so people don't need to escape their reality as much. You can go out and see a cool castle or ride a train or go check out a new country. And then you can get really, really, really good food that won't give you diarrhea like the food here in the US.
You misunderstand, riding trains increases the amount of shitposting capacity one has.
Wenn der Scheiß Zug kommen würde, könnte ich auch Scheißpfostieren.
What's the difference between the US and Germany?
In Germany the ICE will probably not show up at all to take you away.
non white americans exist and enjoy good food 🤭 I encourage you to try it
Si lo sé, soy uno de esos. Pero igual, si el gobierno no inspecciona las operaciones de los restaurantes, igual te da diarrea. Las veces que he ido a Europa he regresado en mejor condición de estómago.
We just lurking, not allowed to let the government know we are here!
huh, the US government doesn't know lemmy exists
Well yeah, if you only go to McDonald's or Taco Bell then you'll get diarrhea, but there's plenty of food and restaurants around the entirety of the us that has phenomenal food. However looking at your post history proves to me you don't care about facts and only about insulting people and their ideals, and seemingly everyone on the internet enjoys nothing but shitting on Americans no matter the circumstance, so I know this will fall on deaf ears.
Ouch!? You have very curious reading comprehension skills, it appears. I'm not shitting on Americans, i'm shitting on the relatively weak and ineffective governments at the local state of federal level, which tend to only serve the interests of folks with large amounts of money. I have a relatively sensitive stomach and I have been sick from all kinds of restaurants across the US.
You see, when you pay people minimum wage or less so in the case of tipped workers, their motivation to clean up and provide a great sanitary environment for everything is arguably lessened, don't you think? Further, our education system, being largely designed by large corporate interests aims to produce ignorant workers, people addicted to fast food, sugar and its derivatives. People who think food should be as cheap and fast as possible, as convenient as possible, and not worthy of sitting down and spending time, contemplating cooking it, growing it, eating with family, et cetera.
I remember walking around in Zwolle, Netherlands. I remember being embarrassed because I was the only one walking around while eating something. Everyone else sits down to eat. I never saw anyone eating in their car. Or eating while driving. I'm just saying this is illustrative of the difference between the US's fucked up food culture and the rest of the world's more mature and established food culture.
Have you ever been to Japan? Have you ever been to Europe? Have you ever been to South America? I have and I can tell you, on average, they truly respect food. Just walk through the center aisles of any American supermarket and tell me if those products suggest a culture which honors and values food? It's my humble opinion that no, not really.
If I'm full of shit and I'm doing something wrong, I am all ears and willing to do better, I promise you. You're gonna have to be real and not just throw daggers like that.
taco bell doesn't give me diarrhea. it's not the firmest bowel movement, but it's certainly not diarrhea.
I mean, America is threatening war with Europe so...
Hey don't blame all of us. It's just that one guy with dementia who paints his skin orange.
Unfortunately, thats a moot point to people who are staring down the barrel of our obscenely large military budget. I dont blame people for not liking us. I didn't vote for agent orange, but he is still representing our country 🤢
Start posting. Please. I am begging you.
Seit 5:45 Uhr wird zurückgepostet!
...uh, sure?
I think he was eating alphabet soup, choked, coughed it up, and typed out what he saw.
Actually it's a quote by a very famous (but not very good) Austrian painter and book author.
Der har mich ne Sekunde kostet.... uff nimm mein Hochwähl!
About the start of the first European union, right?
/* * * *********
Password protected alphabet soup!
Aber sowas von!
Wunderbaum! No...Wunderbar!
Jokes on you, I'm from europe and still hasn't gone to sleep
He drinks a whiskey drink, he drinks a lager drink. He drinks a drink to the good times. He drinks to remember the better times!
…and being boring is only one of Europe’s strong points.
Well it could be worse. You could wake up and actually be in the US.
Eh, I give it a 4/10 right now. There's still some cool stuff to do and plenty of great people around, but generally, can't recommend it if you don't have to.
Here I am from the Balkans.
But I feel like posting about USA, until it's never relevant again.
Well then post some articles about whats been going on in tge Balkins, I've got a buddy in Belegrade
Alright then. I have not been following much, ironically. I think America is of course, trying to meddle in our oil refinery deal, after putting sanctions on our refinery (which was partially owned by Russia).
I am secretly very happy about the refinery problems...anyway, it starts work again 23th January.
There were warnings that we would not be able to recieve pay on our credit cards (no transfers) or something like that as well.
Caused me to withdraw all my cash.
Estonia?
You have the same name as a Dragon RP guy
Dog, I don't want to know.
Serbia
How's Serbia this time of year?
Didn't think we would actually have snow. They don't clear roads proper. So it's all ice, and white snow everywhere. I felt a weird joy!
Do ya'll salt the roads like they do on the East Coast? Also, I just found Xanathar lmao.
Dammit
Lithuania?
Those are Baltics, they're in the Balkins.
Dang, I was wrong.
Don't worry, you'll learn more about those places during the war.
Dude, I try. I like to embarrass myself a bit to help with memorization. This conversation will help.
Just block the rest. I blocked most of the USA stuff, because it's too much. Trump said this, Trump did that, and some of the news are clickbait.
I'm American, but I'll try to fill the gaps for a bit.
WHAT is the DEAL with this plentiful health care!? It's like...I'm thrivin' over heeeere!
"What is the deal with..."
Is it just me, or is that a really hack thing to do in standup comedy? lol
Its literarary shorthand for "this comic is bad at their job." No comedians actually say that, unless they're referencing a hack comedian.
Jerry Seinfeld literally was that guy. All those "what's the deal with..." jokes are specifically making fun of Seinfeld. It's not calling out all hacks; just the one specific hack.
They're referencing Jerry Seinfeld. He does that.
Or did, probably before you guys were born lol
Like they said, referencing a hack comedian
I mean hack comedians still do it I guess, but most of them don't make it past the open mic stage. Or they improve their craft and stop doing it.
"How about those comedians that say 'What is the deal with...'? They're trite I tell 'ya. Trite!"
It's too bad only 2 places on earth are inhabited
The Us and Greenland?
Cuz My country is fucking the world over right now
Our country. We're fucking people unwillingly together!
"USA stuff" is affecting the whole world right now. You are coming to check out an English based social network for non-"USA stuff". What did you expect?
I genuinely do not understand what the complaint is. If people are interested in non US things, please, by all means go discuss those things, but please don’t act like it’s weird how it is now.
From the other perspective, I love when I'm still up at 2-3 AM and start seeing the ich_iel posts come up.
I love checking Lemmy in the morning, and seeing all the German language Memes. I can't read them, since I don't know German, but I like knowing that they're over there, doing their thing ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Just take a look at the large communities on Lemmy:
I could not find any European meme community at all, and if there was one, I have a hunch it would be flooded with things Trump said or Musk said or whatever is new on Netflix. I guess news about the Circular Economy or the microplastics regulation, being rolled out slowly and in phases, though absolutely affecting EUropeans' everyday lives, are just not quite as entertaining from an existentialist POV.
Not really that active but there is ![email protected]
You can use an app that has a filter setting. I filter out every post containing words like trump and musk, as well as stupid articles with words like slammed. Makes a huge difference
Its time for EU and BRICS to join forces
Without RC please.
Lol mate its okay to invade Greenland but not Ukraine?
Humans are complex as long as they can justify there act , everything is okay
Who said it's okay to invade Greenland? And of course it's not ok to invade ukraine
It’s only ok to invade your mom. I can justify that act.
Lol 🤣🤣🤣 grow up!!
Constantly skating over the fact that half of EU invaded what's now America
Hell yeah
BRICS? Like legos?
I'm not european, but I like legos. Can I join?
BRICS like in your moms vag which I destruct with my pole
My filters disagree with you.
Though I wish I could block everything that has to do with that disgraceful country but, ah well.
Or just a general "no politics" option would be nice.
I'd be fine with "no US politics". It's so annoying that ![email protected] is specifically and only about US politics. Because apparently, US politics are the only politics relevant for the world.
Us poltics are and have been the biggest soap opera for YEARS. and people love their soaps.
I think Lemmy ia harder to filter. My mastodon/sharkey feed is clean from being US-centric because there's content warning feature, people use it, and people describes their image well in the alt-text. That works well with filter. Even the public federated feed i still very clean.
Lemmy however is less robust on that. My Lemmy frontend is not helping either. It does have filter feature but I don't think it works. I can't say anything on Piefed, haven't tried it at all.
How is mastodon these days?
depends on who you follow I guess. I always follow people who I decide I want to keep seeing their post. I don't follow famous people if they post boring stuff. I also don't follow brand account that are just posting ads lol, like software brand account, etc. I follow 516 accounts and it's feels pretty lively.
Though with that amount of following I feel like there are few accounts that got their post buried because they post less frequently.
I mostly follow few gamedev people, few FOSS & tech people, non-tech related "fedi shitposters", and history/archaeology-posting accounts. The shitpoters, gamedev, and tech are the loudest. The latter posts semi-regularly but they just don't have other people interacted with it. Though I still enjoy their posts.
conversely, I had a alt account on different instance but I don't actively follow so much account, it feels so empty. though that particular instance have some funny people so the local feed is also quite funny sometimes. So which instance to join is also matters particularly for the local feed.
But it's also that personally now I'd get slightly annoyed when totally random post appears on my timeline on Bluesky and especially Tumblr. Especially Tumblr which keeps assuming I like taylor swift.
Hungarian here, I still couldn't convince my leftist friends in facebook group chats to leave that garbage site... Many of them are even IT professionals.
Unfortunately it became big because it is more convenient than having several separate tools for using the Internet.
It's a bloody deathwatch. It's a country which could either crash and devolve, or get out of its own morass... at any moment.
I might wake up tomorrow and I see headlines of either a civil war or a new world war erupting.
Make more n people. Or just post more. I just accently posted on a UK thread because it was on my feed so it's not nothing
Viva chile!
I would like to learn more about Chile
The chilean lemmy community is actually is the biggest, and kinda thr only spanish speaking lemmy community lol.
[email protected]
y'all sure are chatty up on that weekly thread
Why should the ocean post something?
The fish people are fun at parties
Well Iranians would chime in but...
It is astounding to see everyone is just once again gobbling up the US regime propaganda on Iran despite knowing how much the mainsteam news lied about Palestine. Good guy trump is collectively punishing the Iranian people with crippling economic sanctions to "liberate them from their tyrannical regime"
Are people incapable of learning from anything the past two years?
Elaborate please
The US and Israel are trying to destabilize Iran and create a civil war to make it like Syria and Lybia. This short video does a pretty good job explaining it https://www.youtube.com/shorts/52JKfb0Nl4E
Come on - this only happens when Trump's regime does some really dumb shit. Can't be happening that often, can it?
Woops
I feel like this meme has grown way beyond anyone having read the White Ninja comic.
I encourage Europeans and non Americans to post things that are relevant to their lives. I'm American and post things that are relevant to my life and that I have an opinion on. I'm curious about people's opinions on things that I'm uninformed about.
Wow. White Ninja
There are a bunch of English Europe-focused communities on feddit.org you could follow.
because your nation is letting them.