World news vs US politics
World news vs US politics
Please. All of this is mostly US politics. Please do not hijack "world news" to mean whatever new shit Desantis or someone else said this week. Every other magazine/community/whatever is already full of that shit. Please.
Please. Please. Please.
US politics already swamp out most of the content on the entire fediverse. It may seem like the world to you but there's almost 200 countries on this planet that are not the US.
PLEASE DO NOT.
Thank you.
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World News is always bound to be dominated by the news of the spoken language. While English is spoken very broadly, the US is the dominant speaker by population. Most "international" news will be written in the native language of the afflicted area. Since people here want English content, you're going up see mostly English speaking areas. Since the US is the largest, it'll be mostly US news.
If you don't like it, start sourcing interesting English content about non-english locations.
So if my quick math is right the news should be about 2/3s USA
331 million in the USA vs 132 million in Canada, UK, and Australia.
I mean it seems more then 2/3s, and I am not including the other 86 English speaking countries....
To do the math correctly, you'd need to start with their respective presence on the fediverse instead of the population by country.
On Reddit, there were/are some subreddits where you could/can talk about world news, and that means news from other countries outside US. But those news didn't have to be specifically written in English. There was a non-forced rule to provide a translation in English to those news inside the comments. So, you could post about "Macron dit qu'il ne démissionnera", and you can see in the comments the reasons why Macron won't resign.
That would be a great solution to the lack of content in English about news from Spain, France, Italy...
English is spoken very broadly, the US is the dominant speaker by population
You did the numbers? You sure?
I bet there are more people who also speak English in India or China alone, but adding in every European country should be a large cherry on top.
While there are a lot of English speakers in India, it is not their native language. News about India will be written for Indians and will tend to use their regional language. Same goes for China and most other countries. Even in the EU where news might be interesting to other EU nations, news is often written in the affected nations language.
It's just smart business to make your content tailored to the target audience.
It's easier to google it than it is to live through an internet fight.
And it's less embarrassing.
I've looked it up before in a similar thread.