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C/politics@lemmy.world <mailto:C/politics@lemmy.world> being US only is weird (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/general@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 31 points 3 years ago* (10 children)

US people are way too blind to the existence of the outside world. I'm sure they have no idea that Lemmy.World is not in the US. I'm not really sure what could be done about this other than making a new more broad politics community. I'd prefer the generic named community to be the one that is the most broad and then if you wanted only US politics to make a more specific community such as !USPolitics@lemmy.world.

I don't think it would be out of bounds for instance admins to force such change as they see fit if it makes enough sense.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    We all have preferences, but unless you convince the admins to be onboard for moderating communities so that they all follow a specific rule and can't be localized unless it's part of the name, I'd say let it go. I am not comfortable with the idea of allowing majority rules to simply take over a community simply because they think they have better use for the name.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Or you know, !worldpolitics could be a thing and you could stop telling other people how to think and behave.

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  • [–] -3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I'm not telling people how to think and behave. That is a weird thing to say in my opinion. I'm sharing my thoughts and feeling. I don't mind if people disagree or have counter points to make. That is the nature of discussion.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    You clearly have an agenda in asking the question. There's no problem with that, but pretending you don't is... weird.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I clearly stated my opinion in which I don't even feel that strongly about. It's just some thoughts that came to mind. I'm not trying to sneakily conspire to influence things the way I want them to be. If stating how I feel is enough to accomplish this then it must be a pretty good idea.

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  • [+] -6 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Unless non-American politics is being deleted then it is just who the more prolific posters are.

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