https://restofworld.org/2024/riders-in-the-smog-gig-workers-..., about air pollution.
https://restofworld.org/2023/ai-image-stereotypes/. They analyzed 3,000 images generated by Midjourney and found strong biases in them.
https://restofworld.org/series/china-shopping-cart/. A series on China and how it influences shopping globally.
https://restofworld.org/2023/internet-most-used-languages/. The most used languages online vs in the real world. Most of the overused ones aren't surprising (eg, English, German, French) but some are (eg, Persian, Indonesian, Vietnamese)
https://restofworld.org/2023/chatgpt-problems-global-languag.... Basically, ChatGPT does really, really, badly at a lot of languages.
https://restofworld.org/2022/welcome-to-the-ambaniverse/. An exploration of how one guy, Mukesh Ambani, influences the life of many Indians. Not just through tech, but through shoes, mattresses, gas for their car, and a cricket team.
https://restofworld.org/2022/blackouts/. Internet censorship globally.
There was an attempt several years ago to get a francophone free-software news aggregator going, but I don't find it anymore.
https://habr.com/ru/articles/ ?
https://www.toutiao.com/ ? (I did manage to navigate to what, judging from the screenshots, was some kind of tech aggregation, but as with big US platforms, I have no idea how to link directly there)
My fork and enhancements are here: https://github.com/jgrahamc/twostopbits
It also isn't intrinsically linked to the VC scene like HN, which may or may not be a plus/minus, depending on your views.
If the invitee turns out to be a spammer, or posts a bunch of hate speech etc, the inviter may be held responsible for the invitee's actions. This isn't a hypothetical, it's explicitly explained in on the invite form, and I've seen cases where people were banned because they invited people who then acted spammy.
