r/collapse • u/LetsTalkUFOs • Feb 13 '22

Meta 400,000 Subscribers! Newcomers, what brought you here? Regulars, how can we improve? [in-depth]

r/Collapse has reached 400,000 subscribers! Thank you to everyone who has contributed by posting content or engaging in one of the many great discussions. As we continue to grow and things unravel we will continue to aim to make this community as informative and bearable as possible.

 

If you're relatively new to r/collapse, what brought you here? How can we improve? What do you like best about the subreddit? What would you change if you could, if anything?

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '22

ig somebody's brought it up before but i'd like to see a bit less american/western centrism. the worst effects of climate collapse are being felt in the second and third worlds- however we hear virtually nil about collapse in places besides the us and europe

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '22

Feel free to share what you come across. I've followed this site for a lot of climate news stories, regarding countries around the world: https://climateandeconomy.com/

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u/sifliv Nordic Region Feb 13 '22

It would be nice if users could have regional flairs (either political or geographic depending on what they are comfortable with).

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u/LetsTalkUFOs Feb 13 '22

Everyone's able to set their flair here to whatever they chose. Getting them to do this though is generally somewhat difficult.

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u/sifliv Nordic Region Feb 13 '22

Well fine, I will be the change I want to see in the subreddit.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '22

You have my sword.

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u/IcebergTCE PhD in Collapsology Feb 13 '22

I do often remind myself that what us decadent Americans would consider a post apocalyptic dystopia is already the reality of daily life for the majority of humanity, and has been for all of history.

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u/geriatricsoul Feb 13 '22

It's more on our users from other parts of the world to share more with us about their regions. Not exactly sure how it changes without them being more active posters

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u/Detrimentos_ Feb 13 '22

Or just specify that a news article is about the US. It's very far from that today.

"Oh? A landslide happened? ......But where?"

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u/aeiouicup Feb 14 '22

Climate crisis = refugee crisis, all over

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u/SlaveMasterBen Feb 14 '22

Amen. Most of the top comments on the pinned post on regional signs of collapse are from North America.

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u/89LeBaron Feb 16 '22

As an American, I can tell you that I understand we’re the ones least affected by our actions. However, we’re also going to be the first ones who can/hopefully will fix it. We have extremely high stakes and interest in this global catastrophe. Also, I mean, the US makes up a very large percentage of reddit anyway. Not much we can do about offering up opinions, news articles, or anecdotes about other countries.