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Since lemmy.ca is federated, you can see content from everywhere. However you also have a lot of control over your feed, and you can either block communities you don't like or (my preference) primarily use the 'subscribed' feed and only subscribe to the content you want to see.
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And every one of them has been insidiously inundated with American culture. Generally, the talk is all about how America is affecting Canada. That s a tacit acknowledgement of this insidious creep.
I agree that this is happening. While we should be aware of what they're up to when it directly affects us, we could use more Canada specific content
I try to share what I can, feel free to share some as well :) If you have a website that you recommend, I can see if I can share more from there
That s the problem. I was desperately hopping that this web site (insrtance?) would be a solution, but t seems that the Americans are so insidious, they will infiltrate ANY website. The solution s not to start a new instance the solution is to police the existing instances to keep the Americans out. As long as the Americans have access, they will dominate, period.
It's actually possible to create local only communities, which would restrict access to users on
lemmy.ca. While that doesn't completely do what you're looking for since Canadians on other instances won't be able to see it, it might help somewhat?On the contrary, it just perpetuates the problem. It does not stop the insidious creep, it just pretends it is not there. Like burying one's head in the sand. The trick is to stop it from happening in the first place. Americans are quite adept at doing it in their own country (blocking out and filtering the influences of the rest of the world on their culture) so why can Canadians not do the same thing?