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Fathers Day is tomorrow (aussie.zone)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Just a heads up for those who feel like doing something for the day but haven't been focusing too much on the calendar.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For the brits out there - don't panic! This is not the UK father's day

[+] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fwiw, this made it to the front page of All on instances other than yours. Not that it's in any way OP's fault, seeing it just might confuse or alarm other who aren't paying close attention.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why would it confuse them? This is clearly the Australia community.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People get confused at lots of things. That's...pretty normal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I upvoted you because I'm also quite confused.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I was initially surprised that our communities were so visible on the outside, but I just went and scrolled 4-5 pages on lemm.ee and found the Melbourne daily thread

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No need to be hostile - we aim to be a welcoming community. Lemmy isn't going to grow if we can't cut people some slack

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It just gets annoying after a point. Other countries, particularly Canada, the US and the UK get basically the entire internet for themselves. Especially America, where no matter where you are it's just automatically assumed you're American and know everything about America. Not specifically directed at the comment above, but it does get really annoying that we can't have a single place on the internet where people won't be get confused and complain about how differently we do things and have things on different dates

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I certainly understand the sentiment and I find it annoying when Americans chime in with very little understanding and give their 2c. Luckily we haven't had any (to my knowledge) in the referendum megathread. The problem with that comment was it was a bit aggressive

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't blame them, that comment annoyed me too. This community is literally called "Australia", is on the "aussie.zone" instance, and it's icon is Australia. I don't see how anyone looks at that and goes "oh they must be talking about British holidays!"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Usually it's because they don't even look at the context. So many people on social media are just living their lives on autopilot, mindlessly doom scrolling and having emotional reactions to headlines without ever actually clicking through to the article or reading the body of the post. It's the reason why misinformation spreads so easily online.

For people from high population countries in particular, they all share that same mentality where they think the world revolves around them. Everything they see is through the lens of their own culture and they're completely ignorant of anything that might be happening outside of that bubble.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My partner is pregnant with our first. Does that mean I'm a father tomorrow or nah?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's up to you, I personally didn't when I was in the same situation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Congratulations. Yes you are a father