Please rename this community or change the subject

https://feddit.de/post/1865106

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].

All political discussions should be welcome here. Just don’t complain when 75% of the posts still revolve around the US simply out of the sheer size of the country.

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.

The US is the 3rd most populated country in the world and we all speak English. It is also the richest country in the world, by a long shot, which means more Americans are likely to have access to the internet. It is comically ignorant to think that the vast majority of stuff posted wouldn’t revolve around the US. Demographics for Reddit are far easier to find but I would claim traffic here would be similar. So on Reddit roughly 50% of traffic came from the US which was nearly 7X higher than the 2nd highest country (UK). We don’t need rules here which keep other politics out, but US politics will absolutely dominate discussion.

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:

wisevoter.com/…/richest-countries-in-the-world/

Richest Countries in the World 2023 - Wisevoter

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 […]

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