• lemmyknow@lemmy.today
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    23 hours ago

    some Germans tend to find the Americocentrism on Reddit, but also to a lesser degree, on Lemmy, boring and at times nerve wrecking.

    Based. I concur and approve. Wish I could do the same and steer away from it all. Not easy, though :(

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      23 hours ago

      Yeah. Personally I try to visit non-American subs for that quite often here. Australia, Canada,etc. provide different views and influences as well and are English speaking.

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        20 hours ago

        Knowing other languages isn’t a problem for me. The difficulty is finding stuff I like online in other languages. I am mainly a YouTube person, and I have the ones I like. Most are in English, though. I’ve tried expanding to other languages, but to find stuff I like (and can comprehend) is not easy. A subset of a subset.

        Edit: as for Lemmy, it’s mainly where I go to waste some time. Rarely ‘Time Well Spent’, I just check whatever pops on the main feed at default sort. Best community is probably AskLemmy, where I can ask people stuff. But other than that, nothing I’d particularly seek in specific