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>>t0bia_+(OP)
I am European and see another US news oriented site which ironically is not "minimalist" from my perspective. It is (to me) littered with US domestic concerns. My point is that _minimalist_ is highly subjective and a pretty huge promise from a site.

But kudos to the effort and the idea of keeping news small is a most noble cause

>>finnjo+G81
The problem is that .com is a de facto US TLD… as an American it doesn’t strike me as odd that a .com site is implicitly USA centric any more than a US news channel or US newspaper.

(Yes I know .us exists but it’s not as common as .com)

If it was newsminimalist.co.uk I don’t think anyone would really complain that it’s UK-specific news, right?

>>ninken+Js1
No, .com isn't implicitly USA centric, it's just the internet default. You mention .us yourself but then dismiss it because reasons.

Your American bias is just shining through, where of course you're not surprised.

>>lawn+SA1

    $ whois com.
    % IANA WHOIS server
    % for more information on IANA, visit http://www.iana.org
    % This query returned 1 object

    domain:       COM

    organisation: VeriSign Global Registry Services
    address:      12061 Bluemont Way
    address:      Reston VA 20190
    address:      United States of America (the)

It absolutely is a US tld, run by a US corporation.

DNS was originally a DARPA project, and was implicitly US focused from the very beginning of the internet, because it was a US project. ".com" carries that legacy because it predates the concept of country-specific TLD's.

A similar idea exists in reddit: /r/news is very US-focused, even though it's not called "US news". Since Reddit is an American site with an (at least initially) predominantly American audience, it's not surprising at all that things are American-biased by default unless explicitly named accordingly.

If we were all using Minitel instead of The Internet, we would have similar bias where services would be biased towards France unless shown otherwise, because Minitel was a French technology.

The point is, it's not explicitly a problem that somebody puts up a website and it's US-centric. Nobody owes the world an international version of whatever project they want to make, and you don't need to get upset that they only bother to cater to a US audience.