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This only presages what's gonna happen to the whole of the internet in the next decade and a half. Both India and China on their own have more people than the entire western world combined. Now China has language barriers but for India and associated countries the English speaking internet is fair game.
If anything this world is a more fair one than the one of the 2010s where the internet was dominated by the concerns of average residents of WEIRD countries which make up an even smaller percentage of humanity (at least before 2010ish you could reasonably say the Internet was where the Western elite congregated and they deserve a bigger megaphone by dint of their eliteness).
Alright, psychology and sociology 201 it is.
People get attached to things they like, especially if they've liked those things for a while and those things have given off indications of catering to them. They don't like it when those things drift away from them and start catering to others in preference to them. This is the emotion of jealousy (in the proper, original sense, not the pop-culture synonym for envy it's become) - what you have, you hold on to, and you don't want someone else to take it from you.
And, to be frank, there's some merit to this kind of jealousy. The ideal Internet is one where different subcultures can all have their own spaces, but those different subcultures are of vastly-different sizes. That means that with a naïve policy of "let everyone in and always cater to whoever's the biggest chunk of the userbase", niche subcultures cannot have an enduring space - they'll be locked in a cycle of "start forum just for them" -> "forum grows" -> "despite self-selection, most of the new members are from more popular subcultures due to order-of-magnitude size difference" -> "forum's membership statistics slowly drift" -> "forum becomes genericised" -> "original userbase becomes disillusioned and secedes" -> "start forum just for them". It is not unreasonable to want a permanent internet-home, and that necessitates breaking the cycle somewhere.
"Growth" of that sort is growth of the site but not expansion of the community - it's colonisation of the site by a different and larger community. Denigrating the original community for failing to welcome their own marginalisation is effectively asserting that they have no right to a community at all.
(Disclosure: This is a copypaste of two posts I made on Questionable Questing about the site SpaceBattles transitioning from a hard-SF-sperging forum to an anime-fanfiction forum, with some specifics stripped out. All my words, though. Personally not confident that "Indians on theMotte" risks turning into an instance of that pattern, for reasons others have noted.)
My response is that western normies are already colonizers who savaged the original founding population of the internet which was tech nerd elites. The Eternal September happened in 1993! The true founding community of the internet is long dead and control being wrested from low tier Westerners towards low tier non-Westerners will just be fair comeuppance for them destroying the thinking man's internet and reducing things to the lowest common denominator.
I am not dead. I think.
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Quora went down this way where all the productive people left once it became a mainstay for 90 iq south asians. @prungus had a decent point here with regards to the possibility of the discussion becoming too India-centric, themotte has Indians in the double digits so that is extremely unlikely to happen but it is a very real concern. There is no reactionary or rationalist sphere in India so this place will be fine lol. Seriously, you cannot compare the likes of Jonathan Bowden to anyone here in the past 100 years. I perosnally would not wish the forum to be run over by Indians either, I have been critical of mass migration and visa scams since the start.
You overestimate a few things. Ethnic conflicts in India are scrutinized much much more than in the west and there are not many smart people or any texts, ideologies that would lead to productive discussions on most topics.
Quora, IG, and twitter to an extent became worse ever since they eternal septembered by people from the third world, and not the good kind. The internet being monopolised by 5 firms leads to people trying their best to appeal to untapped markets. Moldbug on his appearance on Justin Murphys podcast said that he could not have written his stuff this decade as the blog is dead. There were independent well run forums 15-20 years ago, not anymore.
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