Please rename this community or change the subject
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].
This is the sanest take.
People get mad about the amount of US news, but forget the US is essentially 52 (or more if we broke up by sheer size, or by populations or cultures) countries.
That doesn't really hold. To pick just two examples: Europe is 50-ish states (ca. 750 million people), the Indian subcontinent is almost 2b people.
Internet used to be US-centric, and English is still its lingua franca, but saying that 3/4 of the content here is US-related because of the sheer size of the country doesn't make that much sense.
It is also the richest country in the world, by a long shot
You’re more like 7ths, but ok.
Total wealth is a pretty useless indicator. Now make it per capita or use the more common GDP messure, and it looks something like that:
When it comes to measuring a country’s wealth, the most common metric used is Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The GDP measures the total value of goods and services produced within a country’s borders over a certain period, usually a year. Because the GDP is influenced by the population, the GDP per capita is a better […]
34% of the world's entire population lives in India or China. India is also the world's largest democracy. US is tiny by comparison.
this sub's rules explicitly state all contributions have to be about US politics specifically.
What does the first point have to do with anything? China is (or at least was as of a few months ago) the most populated country in the world… do you see many Chinese language posts on this site? Yeah, me neither. And that’s because Lemmy, just like Reddit, is a predominantly English language site.
India is far more populous than the US but they have a poverty rate over 80%. I don’t think people in poverty are wasting their time roaming the internet on their expensive smartphones. That’s a luxury afforded to far more people in Western countries and no other Western country is even remotely as large as the US that also speaks English.
what does the first point have to do with anything?
I'm addressing your claim that US-centric bias on an international site is due to "simply out of the sheer size of the country"
That's obviously not the reason. Here, you actually seem to be agreeing with me.
Last year monthly active users of the internet exceeded 50% of the population for the first time and the vast majority of people use mobile devices to access the internet. There are an estimated 650 million smartphones in India, it's the second largest mobile phone market in the world. In poorer areas, households share one device.
I think you might be really underestimating India.
Again, this is not about where the majority of the posts are from. It’s about the rules of this community:
Welcome migrating redditors to the new US political news community. Please read our rules
Must be articles relevant to US political news.
Currently, posting about politics (if it’s not US politics) is against the rules, and that’s the issue.
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