pet peeve: when local organizations, events, businesses etc forget that the internet is worldwide and stuff gets boosted to people all around the world both manually by humans and (on most platforms) algorithmically.
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@tarajdactyl related: include enough information to tell what the event even *is* if I don't know anything about the group running it
this post inspired by the "improv jam" I recently saw a poster for, with no details about what they are improvising (answer: standup comedy)@emily @tarajdactyl “must bring own fruit and glass jars”
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pet peeve: when local organizations, events, businesses etc forget that the internet is worldwide and stuff gets boosted to people all around the world both manually by humans and (on most platforms) algorithmically.
but yes i would love to go to your event on main street.... if i had ANY CONCEPT of what city you were in!?
please please please if you are advertising for an in person thing, include location data with enough detail to disambiguate globally!!
it is so straightforward to include city/province/country SOMEWHERE on your flyer/bio/whatever
so you can distinguish between
London, UK and London, KY, USA.and George Town, KY (capital of the Cayman Islands) and Georgetown, KY, USA (the sixth most populous city in Kentucky) (i didn't know that KY was the two letter country code for the Cayman islands until pointed out to me by @mirabilos , thanks!)
@tarajdactyl always add the country. KY is Cayman Islands, for example.
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pet peeve: when local organizations, events, businesses etc forget that the internet is worldwide and stuff gets boosted to people all around the world both manually by humans and (on most platforms) algorithmically.
but yes i would love to go to your event on main street.... if i had ANY CONCEPT of what city you were in!?
please please please if you are advertising for an in person thing, include location data with enough detail to disambiguate globally!!
it is so straightforward to include city/province/country SOMEWHERE on your flyer/bio/whatever
so you can distinguish between
London, UK and London, KY, USA.and George Town, KY (capital of the Cayman Islands) and Georgetown, KY, USA (the sixth most populous city in Kentucky) (i didn't know that KY was the two letter country code for the Cayman islands until pointed out to me by @mirabilos , thanks!)
@tarajdactyl I even see this on websites. Folks, you are literally boosting your family business to the entire world; the least you can do is make sure they know where you are.
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@tarajdactyl ", USA" makes it clear
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pet peeve: when local organizations, events, businesses etc forget that the internet is worldwide and stuff gets boosted to people all around the world both manually by humans and (on most platforms) algorithmically.
but yes i would love to go to your event on main street.... if i had ANY CONCEPT of what city you were in!?
please please please if you are advertising for an in person thing, include location data with enough detail to disambiguate globally!!
it is so straightforward to include city/province/country SOMEWHERE on your flyer/bio/whatever
so you can distinguish between
London, UK and London, KY, USA.and George Town, KY (capital of the Cayman Islands) and Georgetown, KY, USA (the sixth most populous city in Kentucky) (i didn't know that KY was the two letter country code for the Cayman islands until pointed out to me by @mirabilos , thanks!)
@tarajdactyl @mirabilos This, and to add to that, sites that close to force a language on you just because your IP is from that country, or sites/apps that assume the US way of doing this is the only way of doing things, like for instance, nobody ever would speak more than one language, right?
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pet peeve: when local organizations, events, businesses etc forget that the internet is worldwide and stuff gets boosted to people all around the world both manually by humans and (on most platforms) algorithmically.
but yes i would love to go to your event on main street.... if i had ANY CONCEPT of what city you were in!?
please please please if you are advertising for an in person thing, include location data with enough detail to disambiguate globally!!
it is so straightforward to include city/province/country SOMEWHERE on your flyer/bio/whatever
so you can distinguish between
London, UK and London, KY, USA.and George Town, KY (capital of the Cayman Islands) and Georgetown, KY, USA (the sixth most populous city in Kentucky) (i didn't know that KY was the two letter country code for the Cayman islands until pointed out to me by @mirabilos , thanks!)
@tarajdactyl There's a London in Ontario, Canada too.
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pet peeve: when local organizations, events, businesses etc forget that the internet is worldwide and stuff gets boosted to people all around the world both manually by humans and (on most platforms) algorithmically.
but yes i would love to go to your event on main street.... if i had ANY CONCEPT of what city you were in!?
please please please if you are advertising for an in person thing, include location data with enough detail to disambiguate globally!!
it is so straightforward to include city/province/country SOMEWHERE on your flyer/bio/whatever
so you can distinguish between
London, UK and London, KY, USA.and George Town, KY (capital of the Cayman Islands) and Georgetown, KY, USA (the sixth most populous city in Kentucky) (i didn't know that KY was the two letter country code for the Cayman islands until pointed out to me by @mirabilos , thanks!)
@tarajdactyl @mirabilos Yeah.... One of my favorites just in the US is people referring to the "Tri-state area," as if everybody would know which of the dozens of US places that are called that by the locals.
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pet peeve: when local organizations, events, businesses etc forget that the internet is worldwide and stuff gets boosted to people all around the world both manually by humans and (on most platforms) algorithmically.
but yes i would love to go to your event on main street.... if i had ANY CONCEPT of what city you were in!?
please please please if you are advertising for an in person thing, include location data with enough detail to disambiguate globally!!
it is so straightforward to include city/province/country SOMEWHERE on your flyer/bio/whatever
so you can distinguish between
London, UK and London, KY, USA.and George Town, KY (capital of the Cayman Islands) and Georgetown, KY, USA (the sixth most populous city in Kentucky) (i didn't know that KY was the two letter country code for the Cayman islands until pointed out to me by @mirabilos , thanks!)
@tarajdactyl @mirabilos
Oh, it’s on Main St. in Springfield? On May 17th of some year? -
@tarajdactyl @mirabilos Yeah.... One of my favorites just in the US is people referring to the "Tri-state area," as if everybody would know which of the dozens of US places that are called that by the locals.
@naga @tarajdactyl @mirabilos
That’s one of the running jokes in The Onion. Unless it’s some specific IRL news item, it’s usually “the Tri-State Area.” -
pet peeve: when local organizations, events, businesses etc forget that the internet is worldwide and stuff gets boosted to people all around the world both manually by humans and (on most platforms) algorithmically.
but yes i would love to go to your event on main street.... if i had ANY CONCEPT of what city you were in!?
please please please if you are advertising for an in person thing, include location data with enough detail to disambiguate globally!!
it is so straightforward to include city/province/country SOMEWHERE on your flyer/bio/whatever
so you can distinguish between
London, UK and London, KY, USA.and George Town, KY (capital of the Cayman Islands) and Georgetown, KY, USA (the sixth most populous city in Kentucky) (i didn't know that KY was the two letter country code for the Cayman islands until pointed out to me by @mirabilos , thanks!)
@tarajdactyl generally, just always include a top-level “country on earth” code or I will assume something possibly not intended.
Georgia? Country in Europe.
CA? Canada.
SF? Finland.
LA? Laos.
NY?
- either Niesky, SN, DE
- or an aeroport in Iceland
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@tarajdactyl @mirabilos This, and to add to that, sites that close to force a language on you just because your IP is from that country, or sites/apps that assume the US way of doing this is the only way of doing things, like for instance, nobody ever would speak more than one language, right?
@ainmosni @tarajdactyl yes, that is awful, especially since my IPv6 comes from a neighbouring country (which is closer than 80% of my own, but still)
also, sites that e.g. offer a choice between DE and EN, but choose EN by default due to my browser’s UI being EN (because I hate internationalised = badly translated computer software) and then use that to override the choice from the menu!
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@tarajdactyl @mirabilos Yeah.... One of my favorites just in the US is people referring to the "Tri-state area," as if everybody would know which of the dozens of US places that are called that by the locals.
@naga @tarajdactyl uhm, that’s the corner where Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium meet, obviously.
Could also be Germany, France, Luxembourg (you know, the village of Schengen).
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