Not on Lemmy. Om Lemmy you're 50% German, 50% American unless proven otherwise.

I've heard it called "US Defaultism" where most Americans online seem to assume that everyone they interact with is from their country and all US news is considered significant even when it really isn't.

If I was using a website called "Facebloke" that was well known to have been made and ran in the UK, I'd assume everyone on it was British.

...Anything written in English, and you can usually filter that even more by just looking for people using too many U's.

the default country

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.

Tbf it seemed to make more sense for the likes of Reddit, Facebook, etc. Similarly if I go to a Chinese forum I would not assume that everyone there was from the USA.

Haha. Like anyone lives outside the US

Maybe you should try posting more often then ;)

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.

I don't care where y'all are from as long as you're not a dumbass dickhead.

Assumed by Americans which is an important detail.

There are tons of tankie subs where you can masturbate to false expectations of the planet and openly hate people who you've never met before, check it out!

I wonder if a news community with a "no mentioning the US" rule would work. Not out of any hate, just as something arbitrary like "don't use the letter E".

Jimmy Eat USA

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.