It’s almost exclusively about USA right now and frankly I’m sick of this US-centrism.
I’d love to see more content from outside the US. If you want to help out, you can post content about other places.
Most new post here have been posted by @silence7, who is clearly an American. One user, means the post will be one sided. Thats not @silence7 fault obviously.
i understand the sentiment of these posts and i agree with that sentiment, but i also dont understand them. the reason usa-centered stuff is posted is because americans post them. people from outside the usa need to post about their countries too, if they want it to be less usa focused, the posts won’t just spawn out of nowhere. saying this won’t make them spawn out of nowhere, it wont thanos snap the americans on the fediverse out of existence. be the change you want to see.
While I totally agree that climate is a worldwide topic, not sure what you think the options are here…
If the majority of users submit and upvote US based stories, that’s what will appear in the community.
If the majority upvote more global stories, that’s what’ll appear.
The only other option I can think of would be adding a rule prohibiting US stories, but that feels like it’s going too far the other direction, no?
I’m not sure what the exact solutions are, I just know there is a problem of cultural dominance. Perhaps a slightly increased standard for international relevance wouldn’t be entirely unreasonable? There are sometimes intranational political developments of interest to the rest of the world, but if we’re just letting popular vote decide what subscribers see without moderation, then based on initial observation, non-USians will just have to move to more regionally specific communities/instances or consent to cultural assimilation.
Yes, i felt it too ! I will try to bring more topics from my region.
There’s nothing happening here in my country lol
Well here “El nino” is being a prick and doing a lot of damages. We already had one torrential rain and there is another one to come today or tomorrow(if the forecast is correct)
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I think part of the problem is language. Sure I could post local climate news, but it’s not in English, so what’s the point?
Translating tools are good enough these days to be able to convey the gist of an article. On reddit it was in some places common to post articles in a foreign language, with the title of the post being the title of the article translated to english, and a summary in the post/comments. But even without the summary, I think it wouldn’t be too much of a hassle for someone who’s interested in the article to just put it through deepl or google translate or something.
Awww nah just post it anyway, if there’s no community for it yet, we could work on building on where you can feel good to share it
Yeah i agree.
With all due respect, there’s nothing stopping you from posting content from a non-US perspective.
Well if you want to keep a community global you have to find people from around the globe to contribute to it. And maybe don’t try to dictate to a community what they should of should not be doing
(Non American by the way, not that it should matter)
