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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (22 children)

To be fair, the US has the largest number of English-speakers of any country in the world. As a first language, it has five times as many native English speakers as second place (the UK). It also has one of the highest Internet penetration rates in the world, meaning most of those English-speakers are also Internet users.

The US is a single country that is three-quarters the population of the entire European Union, and nearly all of its inhabitants speak English and use the Internet. So yes, if you pick a random user on an English social media page, odds are very good that person is an American. If you were to guess any random English-speaking Internet user's nationality, "American" is the best possible guess. But go on a Spanish language forum or a French language forum and nobody will assume you're American.

Consequently, Americans generate the majority or large plurality of English-language Internet content.

Edit: Please stop replying with "English is a lingua franca for non-native English speakers". I never made the claim that someone who uses English on the Internet is likely a native English speaker. I am claiming the converse—that people who natively speak English are likely to use English on the Internet.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Haha. Like anyone lives outside the US

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

As someone outside the U.S., what is your default persona for anonymous/pseudonymous users until you know more about them? Just curious. Like, if you don't have any information about them, do you read the words in the voice of a person just like you?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I default to everyone sounding like Macho Man Randy Savage.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I hear you and am guilty of it myself. I feel like it's due to the anonymous nature of the internet. I think everyone immediately falls into the category of "peer" before putting a touch more thought into who the actual person (bot/ai) is that wrote the reply. Add that to the fact that most Americans see themselves (as a country) as the king of the world.

Maybe you can try typing with an accent, but I think that'd probably just be seen as a racist American.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

This is lemmy.world, you would have to join lemmy.{country} for lands beyond the fruited plains and purple mountains majesty.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (14 children)

I'm from Australia and don't mind engagement with the (mostly) US content.

Let's face it, the US election is the most interesting event on the planet anyway.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

also one of the most concerning ones

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

My favorite answer when internet Nazis asked "How could the Nazis have won?" used to be "Be America."

It's not as funny anymore. They listened.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

i live in DC and we get tagged for everything world politics.

forgive me for not caring if fvey countries get lumped into uspol.

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