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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by desichix1 on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @07:20PM (#44515703)
> It skews one way, but there's definitely a large diversity in opinions on Reddit that are not hard to find. It's also transitioning into an India social media site, just from sheer population numbers.

This happened on Quora until almost all western users left. Initially it was nice to have diversity of users and opinions, but then people started using Indian parlance that only other Indian users could understand (started referring to salaries as crore, relationship advice would reference Indian actors, etc.)

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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by Lu2025 on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @09:36PM (#44516389)
> started referring to salaries as crore, relationship advice would reference Indian actors

Crore is a funny word, I should use it more often. English is an international language now and no country has a monopoly. We should take contributions from everyone.

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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by gsky on Thursday July 10, 2025 @02:49AM (#44518057)
by your logic Americans using millions is also a problem. Remember number system came from India. you cant tell them to change it for your convenience
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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by fkyoureadthedoc on Friday July 11, 2025 @11:15AM (#44533113)
No, by their logic (because it's exactly what he said) the diversity was nice. It becoming a monoculture was perhaps less nice, but no opinion on that was offered, you have to infer.
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