EDIT - A lot of people have made some very good points below. We don't need to get rid of the comms we have (or not create new ones as the need arises). Rather the suggested comms below can be something in addition to the ones we already have (and the ones we'll create), meant for a more broader/general view, posts etc.
1a.) A c/imperialcore would be preferable to having a separate c/canada and c/oceania and c/europe etc. A lot of the laws/politics etc. in these countries are very similar especially w.r.t. how they interact with the global south.
1b.) A dedicated c/internationale community to talk about the global south (rather than separate c/sino, c/latam etc). This can be a place to talk about other global south nations that don't have separated communities without those posts getting lost in the bigger communities.
2.) A c/religion rather than having separate c/christianity, c/judaism, c/islam, c/paganism etc. This allows a place for posts about buddhism, hinduism, jainism etc. These communities, like the ones mentioned in 1a and 1b, have posts that would be of interest to a lot more people than just their userbase.
3.) A unified c/theory rather than separate c/anarchism and c/marxism. This can then also incorporate other tendencies like ultraleft, communalism, etc. I'm someone who isn't on "either" side of the theory line. I frequent both marxists.org and anarchistlibrary.org to read the new additions and go through the backlog. On YouTube I watch both anarchists and MLs. A combined c/theory will invite more users to join, read, post, and interact with one another. Now that we have a dedicated c/strugglesession, any discussion in c/theory that starts drifting towards that direction can easily be directed there.
Right now, these communities get barely any traction because we don't have the userbase to support them. Maybe when we do, we can separate them again if enough users demand it. But there is a lot more to be gained if we combine these communities. At least in my view.
I don't think it's a good idea to have separate regional comms at this stage. we just don't have the userbase to have a separate c/southasia, c/southeastasia, c/middleeast, c/centralasia etc. Look at c/rojava, c/kurdistan. Not to mention, the key idea is that there is a lot of overlap between the issues faced by developing countries in asia, africa, latin america etc. Having a dedicated comm to talk about the global south, a c/internationale, will show that. We can definitely have tags in that comm that are region/country specific.
Yeah, c/globalsouth makes sense, but not if it means nuking c/sino, c/latam and etc. Sometimes people like to circlejerk about some internal meme. If you tweak the site to be person-from-the-empire oriented, you won't attract randos who preffer to talk about local issues.
I just preferred the name c/internationale to c/globalsouth.
I think we can talk about local issues, like protests in India, or the elections in Peru, in a broader community too. That's the point. So that people who aren't from that region can also see and interact with those posts. Right now posts that want that sort of traction go to c/politics or something and then never show up on c/latam etc. Part of the reason I like having different communities is because we can go through those posts long after they've left the current news cycle, kinda like archives. But because so many things just get posted to the big comms this just isn't possible. And they don't get enough attention when they're posted either if they're on the specific comms.
Crossposting should work better, like in reddit you had "see discussion in other communities" or some way to integrate it, idk.
c/rojava and c/kurdistan are two comms for a single small ethnic group and, in the context of this site, they only exist to push a single political position that most people seem to have moved past. I think we have more Assadists than Rojava stans.
A c/MiddleEast, especially one geared more towards discussion of the region, would be much more active. There's actually stuff happening there, unlike the other regions.