Lilkev

I did learn metric in school, did you not? I’m in Ohio, not sure if it’s different elsewhere. Typically it was tied to physics and chemistry, but still learned it.

I use both metric and imperial for work. But the issue is changing every single street sign, updating all of our school material, etc would cost the country billions of dollars and it just isn’t worth it at this point.

All good, just trying to point her out in case you wanted to follow her

The OP isn’t actually Hariette herself. That would be @hariette and @hariette!

Kid just needs to git gud

This is what @hariette has been hard at work on for a kbin/lemmy app!

Swiping works for me on iPhone. My only issue is there’s no way to refresh the page from the PWA on iPhone (to my knowledge).

Posted from kbin.social after “Add to home screen”

It’s definitely not the best out there, but I’ll take free. I also have the ability to share the account, so I shared it with my fiancée.

I think part of the issue with that is that the Magazines (kbin’s Community equivalent) are case sensitive for some reason.

So theoretically there could be a kbin magazine called /m/TodayILearned as well as one named /m/todayilearned

Looks like the America Bad nonsense has already started here smh

Using Keeper at the moment. I used to use 1password, then moved to Bitwarden. Using keeper now because my employer has licensing to give each employee a personal account and a business account for free. So, basically I’m just taking advantage of that.

(Certain) people from the anglosphere see the network is in English, and conclude it must be local to them.

So if we go with the assumption that Reddit hasn’t always been majority users based in the US, why didn’t anyone speak up early on about subreddits defaulting to the US? Why didn’t people create alternative subreddits early on for their own country?

Also isn’t your point about people from the anglosphere assuming the English language means it’s local to the kind of proving my point? The majority of users thought “oh the website is in English, must be local to me” and defaulted to the US?

Not sure what your point is with the web archive link, tbh.

Here’s a time line.

Users couldn’t even create their own subreddits, as in, Reddit themselves opened all of the original subreddits from the time reddit was founded (EDIT: June 2005) until January 2008.

Reddit, being a US company, would obviously default the subreddits to the US.

Are most of the Spotify users Swedish?

Early on? Probably, yes.

Okay, so I provided a source. Do YOU have any concrete data about early reddit or are you just arguing in bad faith?

Is it really not a safe assumption to make that since the website was founded in the US, and today has a vast majority of users from the US, that it wouldn’t have been the case early on?

If a website is built in your country, isn’t it a safe assumption that the majority of users would be from your country?

No no, you don’t understand brother. Have you ever looked at the user stats by country for reddit? Literally right now something like 50% of users are from the US. Early on, the number was even larger.

Here’s a source for reddit users based on country in 2022. The number one spot, 47% of users are from the US, number 2? Oh that’s the UK with 7%. So even to this day, the US still has the vast majority of traffic to reddit when compared to any other country.

How’s that for concrete data?

I don’t think you understand. The heavy majority of users were from the US, if 95% of the posts are about the US, it’s safe to assume it’s the default. The website was built in the US.

It’s akin to going on a forum for Japanese news and being upset that everyone’s speaking Japanese and no ones specifying that they’re talking about Japan.

That’s besides the point anyway, people not from the US are frustrated that Reddit defaulted to the US, and I get it. I would be too if I wasn’t from the US.

I’m ALSO frustrated because the US can come up out of no where on reddit and everyone starts the US apart from seemingly no relation to the original post.

If you saw some of the comments on reddit that were shitting on the US about literally ANY other country, you would without a doubt be pissed off, especially if it was your own country. And it happens ad nauseum when it comes to the US.

Yep, a lot of people don’t seem to realize that. Must be US Defaultism /s

To be honest the most I’ve seen it anywhere, be it Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, etc. Were without a doubt YouTube comments, and random reddit posts and comment sections that had nothing to do with the US.

I’m from the US, and I understand the frustration. But something to keep in mind is that reddit was built in the US, so the first users of the site were also from the US. Hence the original subreddits defaulting to the US.

At the same time, I propose that the fediverse doesn’t turn into an “America Bad” circle jerk like it turned in to on reddit.

Hell, even MySpace is still around.