This is another example of US centrism.
This is politics@lemmy.WORLD.
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 uspolitics@lemmy.world.
Edit: For all those saying “Well, just post stuff that’s not about the US”:
The issue is that currently the rules forbid exactly that.
Rules
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- Must be articles relevant to US political news.
This is the point that should change. It’s not about how many posts will then be US-specific or not, it’s just about whether you are allowed to post about non-US-stuff.
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 community’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.
You’re the one who started taking about the “sheer size of the country” when truth is the USA just punches above its weight, that’s all.
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, since you give a bunch of other reasons.
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.
You have a very entitled and factually incorrect view of who has access to the internet.