Isnβt this only a problem because many users are American? Then naturally many posts will be about America.
How is βworld newsβ defined?
this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2025
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Shh, don't be too logical; it ruins their fun.
Alternate title: I don't want to know what happened in Bumfuck, Nevada.
I had a brief scroll through your history and it looks like you like to post a fair bit about the USA. Some trump meme, something about Tesla in San Francisco, Taylor Swift meme, Trevor Noah cllip...
...be the change you want to see..? π€·
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One of the first things I realized I had to do after joining Lemmy, was blocking some "politics@..." communities (and some people active there)
Completely unbearable.
Rest of Lemmy then turned out to be totally fine and enjoyable folks!
there are alot keyboard politicians on lemmy. they al seem to have a master degree in politics.
doubt any of those keyboard politicians actually contribute to anything useful in their own local politics.
How about someone start a community called outsideUSnews, nonUSApolitics etc.? Where every country other than USA's news and politics are discussed.
!world@lemmy.world has a rule against United States internal news, which is a nice balance for me, but it can still be dominated by news about ways that the US is affecting things around the world
Unfortunately, that community is also moderated by an American (JordanLund) who has refused to acknowledge or accept terms from other countries outside of the United states, has banned Canadians for 'misinformation' when they were merely using Canadian political terms he didn't understand, and has argued with the admins of lemmy.world that he did nothing wrong. The admins warned him about the situation and publicly he refuses to back down.
That community can't be trusted. It's not impartial and not remotely trustworthy. It is seen through an aggressively American lens.
This is a breakdown of some of the shit that he's done. It's a repost of something I made that got deleted when I left LW. This is that original post if you want to see the comments of him "defending" himself by making it a thousand times worse. This was the last straw for me and why I left Lemmy.world, deleting all my content and setting up on dbzer0 instead with new communities to boot.
I am fucking done accepting an American being the be-all and end-all of reality when they're not even plugged into it themselves.
https://lemmy.world/comment/20024446
And here's PJ slandering you because he knows you can't read him.
Pug is shouting into a void at us, still making shit up and pretending to be on the left as he hates anarchists, communists, and anyone vaguely against the status quo. Gotta love how he's just so normal.
And hereβs PJ slandering you because he knows you canβt read him.
I'm sorry that dbzer0 banned me for pointing out their tolerance and denial of genocide and sexual assault. Sorry that you think opposing genocide is 'turbolib' behavior, but I guess locking arms together when one of the community is downvoted - sorry, confronted with bad behavior - is ~~cop~~ anarchist praxis.
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Yeah, you left .world over a shitty mod, to go to an instance where the admins tolerate Holodomor denial and deny UN-verified sexual assault, lmao.
Fantastic choice.
Both Unruffled, dbzer0 admin, and Davel, .ml admin, denying UN verified sexual assault
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But then what would the European's whine about?
Such places do exist though? e.g. !politics@piefed.social says:
Any politics anywhere in the world. Inevitably itβll be 99% US stuff, but thatβs not a rule.
And there's !usa@midwest.social:
Welcome to !usa@midwest.social, where you can share and converse about the different things happening all over/about the United States.
And !usnews@beehaw.org:
News about and pertaining to the United States and its people.
There also used to be !usa@ponder.cat and !news@dubvee.org, although both were on instances that no longer exist.
Also, "World" communities outside of Lemmy.World do a MUCH better job of allowing USA news but not letting it dominate the feeds - e.g. !news@beehaw.org.
You may want to broaden your horizons beyond only those large communities on Lemmy.World - especially since those subscriber stats are fake (the Users / month are likely better but the Subscriber counts in particular include accounts of people who tried Lemmy for a brief time before noping back to Reddit, never to return). An analogy: leave the toxic sheeple to argue over how to fix their Windows machines, while you embrace the beauty of learning to use Linux - it takes some slightest of effort on your part, but you will be glad that you did.
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Wouldn't make a difference for me, I speak spanish so I can't post at all because every instance/community is english only.
Feels even worse when someone posts good news from my country but it's just propaganda and manipulated numbers, but since every actual critic was kicked out of mainstream media long ago, the fediverse won't accept whenever they post now and it wouldn't matter because they speak spanish anyway.
Yes, I know I could host my own.
No, I don't have the means to do it.
i just block out these comms nowadays
This is why I joined feddit.uk. If I want UK-centric stuff then I can look at "local" posts. If I want to see more stuff (including US stuff) then I can look at "all" posts.
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sucks Lemmy doesn't have filters and that people mispost stuff about the us (which is not part of the world) in news/world communities.
The Voyager app has keyword filters. I have words like "Trump" and "Elon" in there and it has helped a lot.
Piefed has keyword filters
scroll "all", and just block everything usa and politics related. my lemmy feed has become an entertainment platform again instead of a pseudo intellectual masturbation platform for keyboard politicians.
So, downvote all the threads?
Just don't sub munis about US news or politics? I never see any here except local stuff in the Chicago munis. Curate your subscription list and you'll be golden.
And blocking this annoying user.