I wonder if one could not make an aggregation of the posts in a collection of communities (I think piefed has that? I dont use that feature) but where the votes would be weighted by participants. So a post with 100 vote on the 10k users /c/PoliticsUS would have the same visibility as a 5 votes post on /c/EverythingSwahili with 500 users.

This actually makes total sense!

I agree. Solarpunk is a lot about thinking globally and acting locally.

Steps can be taken against nationalism, regionalism and xenophobia without forbidding local communities.

Re: No borders, no nations

Just before reading this paragraph, I jumped quickly into /c/immigration@slrpnk.net as it is an interest of mine, and quickly opted out when I saw it only talks about US.

The reason why I like have a national community, is because it also allows to talk about politics without it being only about Trump and US politics.

I hate nationalism very much and would love to have a more global hub to learn about the important political subjects that dont crop up that much in French (my local one) or US media. Sadly, I never see such a thing. National communities are a bad solution but to a very real problem, which is that global themed communities end up being US ones. There needs to be a solution to that, and it is not clear to me what it should be. Quotas per country/continent? split into US/non-US communities? Language-centric communities?

About languages, this is also something that could require a bit of discussion. Of course I love that internet as a de facto lingua franca, which is English. But that is also pretty exclusionary for non-speakers. I know there is an understandable dislike of “AI” tools here, but this is one case where automated (and optional, and clearly labelled as such) translations are something that could help bridge communities and cultures. I wonder how difficult and expensive putting together an automated translation system could be.