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  • (Certain) people from the anglosphere see the network is in English, and conclude it must be local to them.

    So if we go with the assumption that Reddit hasn’t always been majority users based in the US, why didn’t anyone speak up early on about subreddits defaulting to the US? Why didn’t people create alternative subreddits early on for their own country?

    Also isn’t your point about people from the anglosphere assuming the English language means it’s local to the kind of proving my point? The majority of users thought “oh the website is in English, must be local to me” and defaulted to the US?

    Not sure what your point is with the web archive link, tbh.





  • I don’t think you understand. The heavy majority of users were from the US, if 95% of the posts are about the US, it’s safe to assume it’s the default. The website was built in the US.

    It’s akin to going on a forum for Japanese news and being upset that everyone’s speaking Japanese and no ones specifying that they’re talking about Japan.

    That’s besides the point anyway, people not from the US are frustrated that Reddit defaulted to the US, and I get it. I would be too if I wasn’t from the US.

    I’m ALSO frustrated because the US can come up out of no where on reddit and everyone starts the US apart from seemingly no relation to the original post.

    If you saw some of the comments on reddit that were shitting on the US about literally ANY other country, you would without a doubt be pissed off, especially if it was your own country. And it happens ad nauseum when it comes to the US.