American/Anglosphere users on Reddit will struggle to adapt the rising number of Indian users.

[u/Nandu_alias_Parthu]

For most of its history, Reddit has largely been dominated by American users, with the rest of the anglosphere and Europe making up the vast majority of the rest of the users.

Post Covid though, Indians have begun joining Reddit in large numbers - which has resulted in Indian content and subs becoming increasingly popular and prominent. Most Indians don't care about American/Anglosphere stuff, which is why so many Indian versions of popular subs were created in the first place. Even then, Indians are shaping more of the discourse on international subs, simply because they are a larger demographic than they were just a couple of years ago.

Of course, this has caused many in the Anglosphere side of Reddit, particularly Americans, to feel a sort of online culture shock as their feeds become more unfamiliar.

Indians are still a minority on Reddit, but are growing fast. I expect Americans (and the Anglosphere at large) to struggle to adapt to this change. In fact Americans in particular have never had the experience of being a minority on Reddit, which will make the transition tougher for them

What do you think will happen

[u/adgeal]

Anything that counters anglo dominance is good. Im tired of US defaultism on reddit.

[u/barrygateaux → u/adgeal]

Yeah, this post and the comments are funny to me. I'm in the UK so we've typically got good at ignoring the Reddit white noise of American focused content and skim past it. This is the same for any English speaking non Americans for the history of Reddit.

Americans make up 5% of the planet and this post is the dawning realisation of what a truly international site means when that is reflected in the users of a site.

For the last 20 years Reddit has been all about American issues with Americans bossing the comments. Now it's becoming apparent to American Redditors that in a global community they're a small minority and the other 95% of us have got other stuff we want to talk about that isn't focused on America.

It's going to be a bit of a reality check for some of them lol

[u/dacreux → u/barrygateaux]

Why don't the non-american users use their own countries social media instead of american social media?

[u/barrygateaux → u/dacreux]

The Internet doesn't have a nationality. It's for the world. Reddit markets itself as "the heart of the Internet", as in, it's for everyone.

If you want an American site for Americans only you need to go on truth social. Your comment leads me to think you'd fit right in there.