Switzerland

That’s fair, but somehow I never seem to see hatred directed towards any other nationality on Lemmy, aside from Americans.

You might just not hang out in the right places to see it, but anywhere there’s a European political community, you will see plenty of shit talk and hate and blame being thrown around, especially towards the bigger euro countries like Germany, France and the UK (though not limited to).

I’m not saying there isn’t a good explanation as to why you might have been condescending, or that you are a dumb proud maga American, or anything of the sort, but keep in mind that we can’t guess what you might be thinking, all we have to go on is what you write and some of it that I highlighted does make you look a certain way.

There’s for sure some of that conflation happening, but I don’t think it can be ascribed to any particular group, it’s just a bad habit/process a lot of people use regardless of where they’re from. I don’t have a solution for that, and I doubt it’s something you can correct on an online social media platform.

Assholes will be assholes, we don’t need to put them in an American or euro or whatever else case to recognize them as such and deal with them.

While you are probably correct that criticism of the USA (and of its citizens) pops up too often in unrelated topics, I think that you are basically just discovering what it is to not be the ultra dominant demographics on a platform. It doesn’t mean it’s right or anything, everyone should strive to make Lemmy a welcoming place, but it’s certainly going to take work on both sides. That said, I would like you to re-read some of what you wrote:

and their obvious jealousy and insecurity regarding Americans

For one thing, my command of the English language rules that out, which isn’t something I can say about many of you.

America controls the world, and Europeans are salty about it. I didn’t even realize how salty until I started using Lemmy

I swear to God I’ma start criticizing the metric system again

The amount of condescension dripping from your comments is frankly off the chart, and you should maybe take a minute to ponder whether you are actually behaving as you preach, rather than just being in your own American circlejerk, as you might have called it had the shoe been on the other foot.

In any way, being an admin/mod is a thankless task, so I for one appreciate you for doing that, and maybe everyone can learn a bit from sharing a community.

Just because you have a national solution that’s crap doesn’t mean the rest of us should agree to have a European solution that’s crap too, even if it’s less crap than what you already have.

I’m not knowledgeable enough about this particular project to be able to give an informed opinion as to whether it’s bad or good (though the article raises some points I would consider concerning), I was merely reflecting that there can be enough valid criticism of the implementation of something that’s good and useful in theory to make it simply bad, and that not every criticism can be dismissed by saying something is better than nothing.

Bad is the enemy of good, too

Even without considering cheese villages (somebody mentioned Roquefort, I was thinking of Gruyere, France clocking in at about 100 inhabitants), I believe Verdun would be just as known and is smaller at a population of around 17000.

Sorry for only answering now, I don’t check Lemmy super often, here you go: la depeche, le monde

Just fyi, the hand being cut off is fake news, and none of the victims have their life in danger

I’m sure your boss/manager would proactively increase your wage relatively to the extra work you asked for