Its not as bad as reddit was, imo

This is true on almost all social media. There's an inherit USA assumption. People with kick off topics in news, pics, funny, tv, sports etc assuming you're in their context.

Learn how to curate, jeez

As someone else has stated, reddit was way worse,

The big difference I see is that while there is a lot of US politics here, if you block those subs, it disappears.

On reddit, it was fuckin everywhere.

You could not have a discussion about any country in a specifaclly non-US sub without hordes of yanks pilling into the thread and either:

A: Dragging the discussion to the USA. Well, in the USA the law would work this way... followed by 30 more US centric comments drowning out the discussions from the actual country the story is about.

B: A bunch on yanks telling you how you are doing democracy/free speech/gun control/health care/or basically anything wrong and how you are all sheep who are about to be marched into concentration camps.

So, no can't agree. lemmy/kbin is much better with that shit that reddit has been for a decade or more.

95% of my Lemmy browsing is on my subscriptions and local instance (aussie.zone). My subscriptions have a few communities on other instances.

I don't see a lot of US politics. Though I see more Australian politics than I'd generally seek out, to be honest.

I've been going through and blocking news from Nepal, India, and a handful of Middle Eastern countries left right and center, most of which I can't understand because I don't speak their language. If you're not blocking the Lemmy subs that produce the stuff you don't want I'm not sure we can help you.

Seems to be an "internet problem" and not so much a "platform problem".

They're stupid, loud and oblivious of the world outside their borders.

Just look at the rest of the internet, there's no "com.us", they're the default.

I've blocked all of them, it really is a big improvement.

As an American, after getting somewhat comfortable with Lemmy, I've spent the last week since the blessed Boost app dropped blocking subs in All and local. Some of them are just active (politics), others are low effort pandering immature bullshit (political memes), even news-ish communities seem to have relatively high level of 24-hour biased political stuff. Might have to block them from local/all too.

My feed has definitely improved, I guess I took for granted how curated my feed was on Reddit, but pretty happy with what I have now after a bit of effort.

I actually think the opposite. I'm on kbin tho, but I've noticed a lot more ESL speakers across the board. But also, I'm really only on aus politic magazines anyway

Did you know some random American gun person went to a Beetlejuice play? Apparently, this is of vital importance and everyone MUST know absolutely every single move that she made that night.

lemmy seems to do a 'better' job (if you can call it that) of providing content similar to what you previously browsed than reddit ever did for me. There is also a LOT of american politics here, so you read one article, you are going to be fed many more.

The only real downside to lemmy is that most of the niche communities arent really active which is a shame, thats up to us to get it moving

Skill issue

As an American, it's annoying as hell for me too. Entrenched leftists and Trumpers are the worst.