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

• Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • topherclay@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Wait what exactly was he doing that he got stopped three times?

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    • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Assume they know what a Ballarat is

      You assume I know where Ballarat is.

      Damn southerners.

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• eureka@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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