this post was submitted on 11 Oct 2023
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Every country has problems. Maybe let's shit on those too.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The community is mostly American, and familiarity breeds contempt.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

English speaking parts of the Internet tend to be under 50% American

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Uh huh.

How about Reddit and Lemmy, specifically?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

less than 50% on reddit. the largest group, but not most

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you're basing that on app downloads, 48% in the US implies not only that Americans, who also use the browser version more, are in fact the majority on English speaking Reddit, given that there are actually fairly large non-English communities.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Based on surveys of reddit users and surveys on other parts of the English speaking internet

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

ah, look - some american thinking it's all americans everywhere

that's "new"