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?
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.
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.
My issue with .world is it tries to be too much like reddit with too many communities adopting former names of subreddits and even cross-posting content from there
I guess it's no surprise if they brought the americentrism along for the ride
Exactly, that's what I saw. As an European myself, I don't give a shit about DeSantis or Iowa or what mass media has censored. It's OK to talk about that, of course, but when all my feed is bombarded with US content...
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
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.
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.