• Don Antonio Magino@feddit.nl
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    3 days ago

    Speaking as an American, it would also be awesome if the fediverse explodes in Europe, and the dominant topics/discussions shift to EU focused ones.

    I’d certainly love this. I’ve blocked all American(-focused) communities to achieve this already. Honestly, I often feel Dutch people know more about US internal politics than those of the EU or even the Netherlands, and I’ve myself gotten a bit sick of 80% of the news I see being about America (even in traditional media I feel America takes up way too much space).

    I think in our media America should have a presence a bit bigger than China.

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        2 days ago

        My main ‘traditional media’ (newspapers, news broadcasts) are all Dutch and German language. Like I said, even there there’s too much of a focus on America.

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      3 days ago

      I’d like to know more about my european neighbors, too, but unfortunately, there’s a language barrier and news reports in english that cover more than the most important stuff is not that common.

      We probably need more pan-european media to learn more about Europe.

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          3 days ago

          Last time I used such a feature (which, tbf, was a few years ago) it was a weird translation with word-by-word translations and weird choices putting content in the wrong context.