I do get the core of what you mean, but at the same time isn’t it a bit silly that we set the categories of news between “the US” and “literally everyone else”?
Personally, I don’t think the US deserves to have its own privileged classification of news that keeps it separate from the rest of the world. Otherwise we’re just letting the US be the center that “world news” revolves around.
The name of someone who died, while completely horrible, isn’t actually of note to anyone outside the locality unless they were notable or specifically targeted for a relatable reason.
Welp best subscribe to dozens upon dozens of news subs instead of just a world News. Gotta find out what’s going on in the UK, France, Germany, Hungary, Austria, New Zealand, Australia, India, Egypt, Pakistan, Palestine, Argentina,Brazil, Uraguay, Ukraine, Romania, Sudan, South Korea, North Korea…
It doesn’t seem to be how it works in practice, though, since the largest news communities by far on Lemmy.world are worldnews (34k subscribers) for any non-US news and news (18k subscribers) for any news, US or otherwise.
The next highest news community dedicated to a specific country on Lemmy.world that isn’t the US is canada_news at 151 subscribers. There are several other larger news/worldnews/US news communities hosted on or federated with Lemmy.world in between.
The separation into specific country communities for a given topic is a bit of an odd categorization to make as well, given that we don’t really have separate communities for, like, Norway Dogs or Panama Gaming or China Technology or Brazil Music. And if there were, one would assume it would be targeted to locals of those countries and feature content in the native language, rather than appeal to an international audience.
I mean there’s more than these two categories. There’s “Canadian news”, “French news”, “South Korean news”, “USA news”, and so on. It’s not a privileged classification, it’s national news, every country has them.
And yet US news is the only category which is singled out in this community, so the US gets to be the defining factor in terms of what this community is about.
I get why that is, because for some reason US news tends to dominate the conversation wherever it is, hence why the “news” community on Lemmy.world is mostly filled by US news. Despite that community having no stipulation on country of origin, despite this not being an American-hosted site, and despite Americans not even being the majority of users here.
I just think it’s just regrettable that the idea of “world news” is defined chiefly by whether or not it takes place in America, and not by a measure of global significance. For example, the post right next to this one in this community is about a bar shooting in Ireland, yet the “not world news” crowd is completely absent in the comments.
I’m so bored of hearing about their self inflicted problems, the same ones over and over again.
At this point I don’t care anymore about how many of their own children they kill. It’s like my dramatic cousin phoning me and for the 50th time whining about her problems, that she makes, but is incapable of fixing.
Myself and a multitude of others grow more and more openly hostile and polarized to this typical loud American attitude every day. Contributions like this are one small reason why, and the momentum isn’t slowing down. Your response isn’t thoughtful reflection, it’s just loud chewing.
The full list of reasons I comment on your trash is too complex to get into now so your request for me to not speak is denied and it would be a waste of time to try explain it to you.
Go ahead and prove me wrong with something other than venomous vitriol, anything beyond ad hominem?
TIL the US isn’t in the world.
I do get the core of what you mean, but at the same time isn’t it a bit silly that we set the categories of news between “the US” and “literally everyone else”?
Personally, I don’t think the US deserves to have its own privileged classification of news that keeps it separate from the rest of the world. Otherwise we’re just letting the US be the center that “world news” revolves around.
The name of someone who died, while completely horrible, isn’t actually of note to anyone outside the locality unless they were notable or specifically targeted for a relatable reason.
Who says the only options are “world news” or “US news”? Just post in the relevant country’s news community. If it doesn’t exist, start it!
I always took “world news” to mean “news that affects the world”, which this definitely doesn’t.
Welp best subscribe to dozens upon dozens of news subs instead of just a world News. Gotta find out what’s going on in the UK, France, Germany, Hungary, Austria, New Zealand, Australia, India, Egypt, Pakistan, Palestine, Argentina,Brazil, Uraguay, Ukraine, Romania, Sudan, South Korea, North Korea…
You’d have to sub to their respective subs to get their local news, if something has international ramifications it doesn’t need to be world news.
I mean, yeah, that’s how it works. Sorry? I didn’t decide or design any of it.
It doesn’t seem to be how it works in practice, though, since the largest news communities by far on Lemmy.world are worldnews (34k subscribers) for any non-US news and news (18k subscribers) for any news, US or otherwise.
The next highest news community dedicated to a specific country on Lemmy.world that isn’t the US is canada_news at 151 subscribers. There are several other larger news/worldnews/US news communities hosted on or federated with Lemmy.world in between.
The separation into specific country communities for a given topic is a bit of an odd categorization to make as well, given that we don’t really have separate communities for, like, Norway Dogs or Panama Gaming or China Technology or Brazil Music. And if there were, one would assume it would be targeted to locals of those countries and feature content in the native language, rather than appeal to an international audience.
I never thought of it this way, but you make a great argument. I agree with this.
I mean there’s more than these two categories. There’s “Canadian news”, “French news”, “South Korean news”, “USA news”, and so on. It’s not a privileged classification, it’s national news, every country has them.
And yet US news is the only category which is singled out in this community, so the US gets to be the defining factor in terms of what this community is about.
I get why that is, because for some reason US news tends to dominate the conversation wherever it is, hence why the “news” community on Lemmy.world is mostly filled by US news. Despite that community having no stipulation on country of origin, despite this not being an American-hosted site, and despite Americans not even being the majority of users here.
I just think it’s just regrettable that the idea of “world news” is defined chiefly by whether or not it takes place in America, and not by a measure of global significance. For example, the post right next to this one in this community is about a bar shooting in Ireland, yet the “not world news” crowd is completely absent in the comments.
I’m so bored of hearing about their self inflicted problems, the same ones over and over again.
At this point I don’t care anymore about how many of their own children they kill. It’s like my dramatic cousin phoning me and for the 50th time whining about her problems, that she makes, but is incapable of fixing.
But looking at your post history, when it comes to news, you ONLY comment on US news.
Talk about self-inflicted problems. If you’re so bored with US news, move on and read news you’re actually interested in.
Myself and a multitude of others grow more and more openly hostile and polarized to this typical loud American attitude every day. Contributions like this are one small reason why, and the momentum isn’t slowing down. Your response isn’t thoughtful reflection, it’s just loud chewing.
The full list of reasons I comment on your trash is too complex to get into now so your request for me to not speak is denied and it would be a waste of time to try explain it to you.
Go ahead and prove me wrong with something other than venomous vitriol, anything beyond ad hominem?
It’s not news in the context of the US, this happens like every week there. Children get shot at school and have to be identified. Business as usual.