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].
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.
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.
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