Comment on [META] Participation by non-Australians? Should we change this comm's display name?

Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Nath@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I think the issue is more that we get people in the community who assume everyone reading it are from the USA. Sort of like the default behaviour on Reddit. It isn’t that we don’t want participation from other instances.

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  • Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Ah yeah, that shits me hard.

    I saw a great word for it the other day, i just cant remember what it was.

    It was insulting to Americans who did this in a way that made them realise there might be more to the world.

    SeppoCentric

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    • Baku@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Pissed me right off, too. Fun tip: do it back to them. Assume they know what a Ballarat is. Even better if there’s a way they could possibly misinterpret it as being whatever their version is. The hate it, and will then 9 times out of 10 rant at you about why it’s justified to assume everybody reading [insert post from the other side of the world] is American

      Needlessly dickish, antagonistic, and petty, sure, but sometimes people don’t realise how annoying their behaviour is until they are on the receiving end of it. See also: eshays and drongos who blast shitty hip hop on the train

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      • Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Fuck me i was flying from brissvegas back to Darwin the other week and there was a bloke doing that on the fucking plane.

        The airline staff came by 3 times to stop him. Fucking tweeker cunt

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      • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Assume they know what a Ballarat is

        You assume I know where Ballarat is.

        Damn southerners.

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  • eureka@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I think the issue is more that we get people in the community who assume everyone reading it are from the USA.

    True. We also get users like 0x815 who simply consider /c/worldnews as an arbitrary audience for their propagandising. To them, it is just another /c/worldnews to dump a news feed onto. It’s not even US centrism, it’s total apathy, objectification of our community.

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    • zero_gravitas@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah, I didn’t want to name names (even though it was pretty clear), but I agree with everything you’ve outlined here. “Objectification of our community” is a particularly good articulation.

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• Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t hate that name.

  But I always felt that aussie.zone should be Australasia centric instead of aussie centric. This was a thought before the Kiwis got their instance going though.

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  • Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, would help draw more people perhaps but it is nice to have an instance where you feel at home.

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    • Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, i’s not really thinking for building numbers. Really just because its the kiwis, Papuans and the rest…

      So, you’re comment made me look again at what the continent actually is. And i have become a bit confused. So, i meant the continent including Australia. Whether thats Oceania or Australia (continent) i don’t know, but i think its definitely not Australasia, so anytime i said australasia i of course was refering to the best of the 7 continents!

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