Mastodawn

Square Singer Jul 26, 2023

Please rename this community or change the subject

Please rename this community or change the subject - Feddit

This is another example of US centrism. This is [email protected]. From the name there is no indication that this wouldn’t be about world politics. Please rename the community or change the subject to world politics and create a community like [email protected].

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kommarihipsteri Jul 26, 2023

I agree. The name is really US-centrist. Not giving good vibes.

Bitch, other countries use english too. No country should have dibs on general words to represent something that conserns, in this case, only one country.

I have noticed the same thing about US government websites end in .gov I think no government should have that privledge. Other governments use english too. Could US officials take their head out of their asses and use an ending like .usgov

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dooger_chogany Jul 26, 2023

Well Americans did develop most of the advances and the first internet is from DARPA. Would seem to make sense that they took the .gov TLD. Can you really be upset about that?

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ricdeh Jul 26, 2023

It is doubtful that any meaningful research can be attested to a single country since globalisation. Every technological marvel you see is the result of international research collaborations from dozens of universities, institutes and corporations around the world. It’s very egocentric to assume that the U.S. is the only or the dominant motor of innovation.

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dooger_chogany

I don’t disagree with you, but it doesn’t negate that the first “Internet” was a US military project which was then taken over by predominately US universities and they created the TLD in 1985 before another country did.