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First panel:

What lemmy.world should be (a map that shows all the countries in the world)

Second panel:

What lemmy.world actually is (a map that only shows United States, including Alaska)

    • lugal
      11·
      11 months ago

      How do you see where the users are from?

      • Ignacio [he/him]OP
        18·
        11 months ago

        I don’t see userbase. I see posted content, based on what I see from Kbin.

        • lugal
          4·
          11 months ago

          So you just assume they are Americans for no real reason?

          • Ignacio [he/him]OP
            11·
            11 months ago

            Maybe they’re Americans from U.S., but I don’t care about that. I was just referring to the posts I see when I’m browsing all, because the vast majority refer to U.S. things.

    • oktoberpaard@feddit.nlEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      Doesn’t Kbin filter based on your language preferences? And even then, English is used by non-native speakers (such as myself) as well, because it’s the language that most people understand and it allows you to speak to a much larger user base.

      • Baron Von J@lemmy.world
        2·
        11 months ago

        Lemmy has a language filter in your user settings. And every post/comment has a field to specify language. When I first started I couldn’t see most comments because I didn’t have the right languages selected in my profile.

      • Ignacio [he/him]OP
        1·
        11 months ago

        I don’t mind seeing content in English or other languages. A different thing is to understand what is written in those other languages, except Spanish and maybe Portuguese, French or Italian. But I don’t remember seeing any language filter. But I know there is a language filter on Lemmy.

        • oktoberpaard@feddit.nlEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          I’ve checked and you can find it on the settings page in the general section. I’ve briefly tested it and it seems to do what it says, but of course it fully depends on comments and posts being correctly labeled. I suspect that many people don’t correctly label their posts and comments. I know I don’t.