Why should it have “diverse and worldwide perspectives”? Must a Muslim site be open to all Christians? Must a Japanese site admit me even though I don’t know Japanese? Should a site for Ukrainians be forced to allow Russians?
I do think of this as an opportunity for you to create your own site that meets your standards, however.
Yup, we need to start bringing back the idea of the village on the Internet. There is no good reason why I need to know what someone on the other side of the globe thinks about stuff going on in my country and vice versa.
As an aside, I'd be very curious to hear your answer to the question. I'm generall very pro-diversity, but I think it's naive to think it's all lollipops and rainbows.
You've immediately assumed that by "diverse perspectives" I mean controversial perspectives.
Personally, I enjoy reading about world news, hearing about TV shows I might want to watch that aren't in my language. I enjoy reading cross-language puns and seeing photos of food I don't usually eat. I enjoy seeing people who don't worry about the things I worry about.
If you don't want those things, if you don't want to know what's going on outside, then that's up to you, but I think that's a sad way to live life.
> Personally, I enjoy reading about world news, hearing about TV shows I might want to watch that aren't in my language.
Then go to any of the sites that already exist for that, and stop acting like any new site needs to function exactly according to your personal preferences in order to be acceptable.
> if you don't want to know what's going on outside, then that's up to you, but I think that's a sad way to live life.
You can "want to know what's going on outside" without needing every single website to be globalized. We don't need to completely eradicate local communities in order to be exposed to other cultures. I think an awful lot of people would find your position here to be the "sad" one. I know I do.
there is reddit for that, I want to go back to an internet thats just primarily NA, if world of warcraft classics success is anythign to stand by or old school runescape, I think its time we did this with our social networks too.
I do think of this as an opportunity for you to create your own site that meets your standards, however.