I’m not saying there can’t be news about China, what I’m saying, and I’ve seen this a multitude of times, is that there is something that Usonians and Europeans do a lot, is that they post news about their countries as if they would be the world. In my book “World News” means something the entire world should care about, not just the Anglosphere and Europe, the description seems just a silly thing to put as a placeholder, at least that’s how it has always worked in this community, news that the entire world cares about. It is a good rule that something global would involve at least 2 countries, or some event that it is really worth mentioning, like a natural disaster in some country, etc.
@gary_host_laptop Now that’s a fair point. I generally dont love the designation of “world news” to anything not happening in the #USA. Over at narwhal.city, where I’m basically the head mod, there’s only one news community, @News. If you wanna post American news there, fine, but foreign news is just as appropriate.
Well, I didn’t mean that you cannot post about anything regarding the US, for example if the US would achieve something like a nation wide legalisation of abortion again, I think that’s something worth noting of posting here, since it’s something the global population of people who can give birth would appreciate, or if it’s something that involves the US and some other country doing whatever (positive or negative thing). I like the idea of having a place to look for news that involve the world because you tend to see thing you may not see otherwise, specifically news about countries that don’t have many internet users, specifically in a platform where the main language is English, where otherwise it would get filled with mostly news regarding Anglo-speaking countries, specifically in an instance that tries to be general purpose and “international” in some way. I think it also makes sense that your instance’s community works that way, since it’s probably a smaller community. Also having specific subs for countries news makes it so that they have more attention even from people not native to that country, and allow me to see the countries I’m interested.
@gary_host_laptop Now that’s a fair point. I generally dont love the designation of “world news” to anything not happening in the #USA. Over at narwhal.city, where I’m basically the head mod, there’s only one news community, @News. If you wanna post American news there, fine, but foreign news is just as appropriate.
Well, I didn’t mean that you cannot post about anything regarding the US, for example if the US would achieve something like a nation wide legalisation of abortion again, I think that’s something worth noting of posting here, since it’s something the global population of people who can give birth would appreciate, or if it’s something that involves the US and some other country doing whatever (positive or negative thing). I like the idea of having a place to look for news that involve the world because you tend to see thing you may not see otherwise, specifically news about countries that don’t have many internet users, specifically in a platform where the main language is English, where otherwise it would get filled with mostly news regarding Anglo-speaking countries, specifically in an instance that tries to be general purpose and “international” in some way. I think it also makes sense that your instance’s community works that way, since it’s probably a smaller community. Also having specific subs for countries news makes it so that they have more attention even from people not native to that country, and allow me to see the countries I’m interested.