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Is it? Or is it a question of which communities you're looking at? Because mine isn't.

The US population is grouped together in one giant pool instead of spread out by state like Europe is grouped by individual country. We focus on national news that affects the large population, and stuff that happens on other states becsuse of the shared identity, while European countries don't have the same kind of European Union shenanigans that affect all of Europe and mostly post about country level stuff. Communities in languages other than English also tend to be posted in separate communites further separating their discussions from the general purpose communities.

We are also louder, which also contributes, but that is not as big of a deal as the sheer numbers.

Presumably you're browsing english-language Lemmy

Most people are going to want to converse in their native/primary language, and by numbers that means a lot of Americans who are, of course, primarily concerned with American issues

There's also the fact that America is a huge player on the international stage, so American issues can have a lot of repercussions in other countries

And if you haven't noticed, America has kind of a lot of shit going on and there is a lot to talk about there.

Everyone slows down to watch the car wreck.

Because the Europeans post in their weirdo languages.

I see German content here all the time, even though I don't understand it or follow it.

Have you seen the shitstorm we're (U.S.) in? We're like the worst car crash you've ever seen and then the ambulance also crashes then the fire truck blows up and then aliens come down and start attacking...kinda hard to look away.

Because it's the most newsworthy country at the moment. The most powerful country in the world is crashing before your eyes, whilst the rest of the world mostly continues on as it was. Yeah, some noteworthy things are happening all over the world, but that's not as dramatic as the fall of arguably the most hated country in the world. And everything from genocide to climate change, disease and general suffering can be at least tangentially related to the disaster that is the US and it's administration. I mean, what noteworthy things are there to chide Sweden for? Anything? Is it comparible to the horrors and despair that the US is causing? There's your answer.

Please. Let it diversify.

As a US dweller, I'd love it to be anything but US centric.

I assume its because people love watching train wrecks.

The US is the largest English-speaking country by far and this post is in English. Switch to another language and you'll see less US stuff.

yeah, I want to hear more about which of your former ministers have shit themselves at McDonalds!

Most of us came from Reddit, and Reddit is predominantly Americans.

I think only Americans like announcing they are Americans. Working with tourists in Europe spotting Americans was easy because the first thing they would say is "hello, I'm from America", or "I'm from Califooornia"

Never had this happen with any other nationality.

My guess is because the US is a dumpster fire that is exploding right now, and let’s be honest: who doesn’t slow down to “rubber neck” a dumpster fire when they’re passing by?

Once we’ve completely fallen on our asses, and worn ourselves out crying like little babies, I’m sure the noise will subside.

Until then you probably want to get a lemmy client that supports keyword filtering and you can at least lessen the noise a little.

~As an American, I don’t know if “rubber necking” is a known colloquialism outside of the US. So, if you don’t know, it’s a term used to refer to the assholes on the road who slow down to gawk at traffic accidents as if they’ve never seen one before; very, very annoying.~

It would already be nice if posts specified they are about the USA instead of just blurping out something about "the civil war" for example instead of "the USA civil war".

One can dream!

This is one of my main motivations to learn other languages. The internet is tedious if you only speak English.

if there were countries in Europe that were as politically idiotic as the US has been for literal decades I'm sure you'd read about that place more than the US.

I live in Canada and as far as political news goes here...it's dreadfully boring and I imagine it's the same for most of Europe. It's always been like that. even regular news here it's boring. nothing dramatic happens because unlike the US most of the world has their shit together when compared to the US.

Welcome to every social media platform on the Internet where it's a pastime to talk about and shit on the US. Bots may also appear in an effort to sway public opinion to speed up the collapse of what was a super power; not like the US needs the help. The Europeans are bashing Americans just like they did on Reddit. Just skip the topic, block community, start your own instance, or use uBlock to filter your page even more.

I'd spend time in All and filter out a bunch of US-centric news communities if I was you. I did that with loads of communions I didn't want to see stuff from.

Donald Trump and the current iteration of america are train wrecks. It's hard to look away no matter where you are in the world. Super power countries don't fall every day.

Most likely English-centric.
For me, english is my internet language anyway so...

There are just more of us than any single EU country.

The internet as a whole is pretty US centric

There are however exceptions (for example: china)

There are 27 countries in the EU, there is only one USA. Most people don't seem to care about each other's national happenings.

In pretty sure my instance is based in Germany, or somewhere in Europe at least. That doesn't really matter. You can belong to an instance hosted anywhere, and also I don't trust data privacy at all in the US so I'd rather not have my home instance be hosted here.

Maybe it has to do with your language settings as well? I imagine filtering out English will make your experience much less US-centric.

Well mine is, but only because I blocked a lot of German and French language instances, because I don't speak those languages, and therefore don't see that stuff anymore. Before that like half of the posts I saw were in German.

Also I still see plenty of Canadian and UK topics all over the place.