Feddit UK is great but at the moment there aren’t any World News communities based on this server. UnitedKingdom@feddit.uk seems to be covering UK news which make sense.
There obviously doesn’t need to be a specific separate community on every instance due to the nature of the fediverse, but I do wonder whether a World News community based on Feddit UK would be something a bit more unique that people might engage with?
The idea would be for people to post World News but preferrably from UK News sources (although not exclusively or too strictly) and to foster discussions that would be likely be more from UK users perspectives as it’s based on Feddit UK? It’s something that doesn’t really work on Reddit but in the Fediverse a general community on big global servers and more regionalised communities seem to be something that co-exist? There can be News@feddit.UK and separate News@feddit.de and so on
Or would it be unnessary duplication and risk diluting communities that need to grow, build content and be broad appealat this stage? Also are some things just better done on a global scale to stop things being an echo chamber?
This is the interesting bit about federation and instances, especially the opportunity afforded by local instances.
You tend to find a World News community on a big, general instance would be dominated by American news sources. A UK based World News would tend to be use British sources and, although we share the same language with the Americans (kinda) we are different (increasingly less these days but things the Americans often take for granted, like guns). The shared language does tend to smooth over the differences - no-one would think a World News community on a Russian or Chinese instance (to give an extreme example) would be the same as a more general one.
So this kind of thing helps us separate ourselves from Reddit and if the Feddiverse is to survive, it can’t just be a clone of the other place. I started !britishhorror@feddit.uk, which doesn’t have a direct counterpart on Reddit. I’m sure there are many examples of things we can do here a bit differently. If anyone wants something but doesn’t feel up to starting it (you should though if you can think of it), then there’s: !communityrequest@feddit.uk.
Long story short - I say go for it. You’ll likely need a few moderators to keep an eye on things as Feddit.uk grows but the key thing now is to spot a gap and go and fill it.
Very well put and I totally agree. It’ll be really refreshing to have these kinds of communities but with UK sources and discussions without the assumption that everyone is American!
Yeah, we may share a language but we are culturally very different and, unfortunately, English-speaking world news discussions tend to default to a US perspective.
I think it’d be a good idea. The world news subreddit often had a very 'Murican centric view to it, if not through articles then at least definitely through comments. This was always very apparent whenever articles were posted about Brexit or even our recent shenanigans, and also temperature records for Britain.
When we’re talking about new heat records being set for Hull, no we don’t care about how you deal fine with the heat in bumfuck Arizona…
no we don’t care about how you deal fine with the heat in bumfuck Arizona…
Although it does get damn hot there!
On a slightly broader point I did wonder about communities on here for British creations (and are very British in their take on things) that have a global reach and already have general communities:
- Doctor Who
- Discworld
- Warhammer 40k
I’d been thinking about this because of the missing sub. Technically not UK news but there were UK citizens onboard.
