inb4: I'm a fed.
So according to Jeff Bezos, 100% of chapo.chat visitors are in the US lmao (and 30% are coming directly from reddit).
Would there be tool we could use to have more information about the sociology of your average chapo (age, profession, ...), like an online poll or something? Like, a way to do it that would guarantee some degree of privacy regarding the handling of individual information people would voluntarily disclose?
I guess the admins could already share some stats on the usage of the different pronouns flairs. Some stats about the number of active users depending on the time of day (apart from the obvious peak at 4:20 in Moscow) could also be interesting.
My hot take: Most of the popular opinions here are determined by the userbase being overwhelmingly amerikkkan, not by ML vs. anar infighting or anything. Whatever the actual percentage is, the absolute domination of US-related content here is actually pretty detrimental to this community. I mean there's no problem discussing US issues if most users are actually from the US and concerned by these issues, but as a community, this website could only benefit from more diversity.
WhAt issues would you like to see pumped more? I can do my part. The Indian farmers protest seems to be the most important left event in the world right now but western media is pretty quiet (wonder why)
more non-amerikans is always good in my opinion, but most of the people we get here are from reddit and most subs there are american based, so its kinda hard getting international comrades here
The internet is American based. International Internet in particular. It is because of American cultural dominance combined with the fact that English is basically the lingua franca of the world, and the largest English speaking population is in the US, so when people step outside their native language's Internet, they enter an extremely US dominated space. This then reinforces the cultural dominance because people learn about the US so that they can talk about it, but they don't learn about other countries so they can't engage with them. So it's kind of a positive feedback loop.
I don't know, I like hearing about American politics because of how stupid it all is, hearing about how stupid my own countries politics is just makes me mad so this is much better.
Maybe we could have a American vs non-american poll, people seem pretty open about what country they're in and that's even more vague.
I actually think there's a decent amount of international representation here compared to other online spaces and it helps that most don't care about US electoralism and there are quite a lot of posts about things going on around the world like in latin america or china. Still an obvious overrepresentation and I roll my euro eyes sometimes when a member of congress is the main point of a discussion but whatever
I get that doing a comprehensive poll might be a bad idea so while I'm very interested like you in what kind of people are on here we probably shouldn't
Yes, I would love to see more content from more countries, but because the entire place is an offshoot of reddit which is overwhelmingly American and this place remains overwhelmingly American and because people end up knowing about American politics but not really anywhere else, posts about other countries get little engagement.
Nah, please don't. Looking at a certain twitter screenshot on the front page of this website, I'm not confident western leftists won't turn the discussion into imperialist intrigue.
Nah it would be fine. Better than now. But it's inevitable when the internet is so US dominated.