dch82@lemmy.zip to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 1 month agoI hate how anything without "world" in its name is just about the USlemmy.zipimagemessage-square244fedilinkarrow-up1703arrow-down166
arrow-up1637arrow-down1imageI hate how anything without "world" in its name is just about the USlemmy.zipdch82@lemmy.zip to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 1 month agomessage-square244fedilink
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up44arrow-down1·1 month agoIf I was using a website called “Facebloke” that was well known to have been made and ran in the UK, I’d assume everyone on it was British.
minus-squaref314@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down12·1 month agoAh, yes! The 3 billion Americans on Facebook! And why would you make that assumption? The internet has no borders, so it doesn’t really matter where or by whom something is made. Especially if the language is English, which has somewhere between 1.5 and 2 billion speakers worldwide.
minus-squaref314@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down3·1 month agoYes, I saw that. But it is obviously meant to be an analogy for how Facebook is a website famously made in America by an American.
minus-squareHossenfeffer@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoMore like Faceberk, amirite?
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-21 month ago The internet has no borders Except that it actually does. See: China, North Korea, other fucked up governments that lock down the Internet for their people etc.
minus-squareWhatYouNeed@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·1 month agoOr the Australian version “Matebook”, full with Aussies. Mate.
minus-squaredumbass@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·1 month agoWe call it Cuntface down here.
minus-squareHossenfeffer@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-21 month agoTo be fair, we call everyone Cuntface down here.
minus-squareTja@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 month agoI’m ready to discuss maple syrup on HoserLoonieSorryEh
If I was using a website called “Facebloke” that was well known to have been made and ran in the UK, I’d assume everyone on it was British.
Ah, yes! The 3 billion Americans on Facebook!
And why would you make that assumption? The internet has no borders, so it doesn’t really matter where or by whom something is made. Especially if the language is English, which has somewhere between 1.5 and 2 billion speakers worldwide.
Yes, I saw that. But it is obviously meant to be an analogy for how Facebook is a website famously made in America by an American.
More like Faceberk, amirite?
Except that it actually does. See: China, North Korea, other fucked up governments that lock down the Internet for their people etc.
Or the Australian version “Matebook”, full with Aussies.
Mate.
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We call it Cuntface down here.
To be fair, we call everyone Cuntface down here.
I’m ready to discuss maple syrup on HoserLoonieSorryEh