C/politics@lemmy.world being US only is weird
C/politics@lemmy.world being US only is weird
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I guess it is a consequence of the Reddit migration where the habit is just keeping the old community name. But having C/Politics being US only on Lemmy.world, an instance that aims to be international (hence the name), seems weird to me.
Would have been cool to give up this assumption that everything is related to US by default when moving away from Reddit. I mean, even the canadian political news of Lemmy.ca is CanadaPolitics.
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Maybe the first rule for any topic regarding politics should be to mark your topic/thread with a specific country code right in the title (e.g. US/GB/DE etc.). Maybe even at the beginning of the title of the topic. Obviously that sounds like a hassle to enforce.
In principle I agree, I very much dislike reading headlines about US politicians doing this and that as if I'm supposed to care. It's always some sort of circle jerk for one side or the other.
There is always going to be a large US community in any global politics forum. That is not a problem. And other parts of the world (let's say any country in Europe) are never going to be as vocal about their local politics in comparison. Bringing some sort of self-enforced order to these posts could be nice.
Edit: To clarify, I wasn't commenting because I'm bitter about a community being dominantly US. I do not browse this community. It matters little to me what happens here. The thing I'm mildly annoyed by is headlines like "Republican/Democrat politician #837 does dumb thing #929" showing up on the front page.
I'm aware we could always block a community. Though I would prefer that would be some niche community like e.g "Missouri politics". The reason I stumbled upon this thread in the first place was because it was on the front page.
If the moderators were a little better than ignorant, they would just change the name of the community. They seem to think that lemmy.world is the new Reddit or a clone of Reddit and they also seem to think that the USA is the default here. They just created a politics community first, made a rule about it being US only, and they see no problem with that because they are ignorant. That's about it. Nobody can force them to change the name, but if people stopped interacting with the community because it's named "Politics" and not "US Politics" it would die. That probably won't happen because a lot of Americans don't have a problem with it. Guess why.
So if uspolitics has to be uspolitics why not create your whereverwhinybitchesarefromPolitics too, since you want somewhere to post your politics shit? Not sure why you need a broad namespace for your stuff
Well I'm not really the kind of person to follow these communities anyway. What I pointed out wasn't a community with a majority of US members (that is no problem whatsoever), it's that the rules strictly enforces US content. From what I understand from the moderator's own post, it's a moderation issue (which sounds okay to me). I was just highlighting the inconsistency between the choice of the community name VS what Lemmy.world tries to encourage. But it's not the end of the world.
That's fair enough and I agree. And like you said, it's not the end of the world.