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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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[–] -4 points 3 years ago (6 children)

I don't know why some people are treating my complains like I'm some sort of Judge Dredd that wants to shoot everybody who makes a community I don't like.

I'm saying, be reasonable. I wouldn't be making a community on .world about some random 4th league football club or a hike trail in my country, I'd use an instance more suited for it. If you can't make a new community there, ping an admin to make it for you. It's not a big deal, and better for everybody: locals can find it more easily, and the others won't be bothered by it by default.

The reverse is also stupid, creating general-purpose comms on country-specific instances. Once instance blocking becomes an option, nobody will find them.

For real, how is it that every bloody country can make its own instance, but only the US can't? Doesn't it strike you just a bit weird? I'm no more interested what's going on in Oregon than in Frankfurt.

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

    As far as I know, you can only create communities on your own instance. I don't like the idea of telling people that need to create accounts elsewhere becsuse their community isn't welcome.

    A general purpose instance is general purpose. As long as it doesn't break any rules, it should be welcomed.

    And segregating the fediverse is literally not what it's about. There shouldn't be forced segregation.

    Instances shouldn't be localized unless that's its purpose. If there was a feddit.us that was general purpose, I'd be fine if someone from the UK created a football community first.

    There's no such thing as a better place for something in the fediverse. There's only not acceptable places. And general purpose has a very low bar for acceptable.

    I feel like most folks don't get the idea behind the fediverse and the multi-instance concept.

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  • [+] -7 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    You just fail to see anyone else's point besides yours. I already addressed your objections, and you're unable to address mine, so I won't be repeating myself.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

    Your argument is "be reasonable" and then some subjective feeling about what you feel is personally reasonable. Your reason isn't objective. I addressed this in literally every comment in some fashion. Your feelings aren't an argument.

    Edit: especially since you never addressed the technical limitations I mentioned in any way shape or fashion. That's a much bigger hurdle than your opinions about what fits in general purpose.

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  • [–] -5 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    What limitations, that you can't make a comm on another instance? I literally did.

    If you can’t make a new community there, ping an admin to make it for you.

    You're also totally failing to see the upside:

    locals can find it more easily, and the others won’t be bothered by it by default

    And worst of all, you, nor anyone else apparently, can address this:

    For real, how is it that every bloody country can make its own instance, but only the US can’t? Doesn’t it strike you just a bit weird?

    Just explain how is it that Britons, Aussies and Canadians can make their own instances even if everyone is speaking English, but everything US has to be dumped onto lemmy.world and everywhere else? Why do you think people from around the world are more interested in Texas than Melbourne or Ontario? If you can't see why it can be annoying to people, well... I'm not surprised I guess.

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

    I did give at least my gut reason why there isn't a US one. Pretty sure it was in direct response to you specifically. In fact I think it was my first response to you. But I could be wrong, maybe it was someone else.

    I think I've also stated a few times why I could see it being annoying.

    And I guess its news to me that you can moderate a community from a different server. Unless you're suggesting no moderation. Which can work for a time.

    But overall, I find people replying without reading to be much more annoying. I guess I just don't understand the point of view of wanting to filter out non-local topics.

    I also don't understand why you're upset if you feel there's a better instance for you?

    Edit: searching by instance seems weird to me too. Kinda defeats the fediverse purpose. I'd rather just block a community if I truly never want to see it again. I see content from other instances though. I don't want to stop that.

    Edit: also I'm literally not bothered by non-local topics. I just fail to grasp that concept. I just scroll past it if I really don't care, but sometimes I don't because I don't automatically not care what others have to say. I just don't have time to translate a bunch of posts so filtering those out would be useful, but I currently don't even have that and I honestly am not really bothered too much. I'll get multiple German posts in a row and... ...barely caused me any consternation. Certainly not enough to complain about it and suggesting ways that would affect more than just me.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

    Pretty sure it was in direct response to you specifically.

    Ah yea, guess you did. So that was my bad in return, I thought that was someone else.

    But I still maintain it's totally weird. There are general purpose Fediverse and Lemmy instances based in the US. All that's needed is for one to step up and try to be the local default. Again, if other countries can have that, and they are also paid for with donations...

    And I guess its news to me that you can moderate a community from a different server.

    Oh yes, you can moderate from another Lemmy instance no problem. No real problem there aside of general federation bugs, but the modding tools aren't affected by this, from what I see.

    There used to be a bug that could brick a comm's visibility if a remote mod edited the sidebar, but that was fixed weeks ago. No issues since then that I know of.

    Only kbin <> Lemmy inter-modding doesn't work afaik.

    I guess I just don’t understand the point of view of wanting to filter out non-local topics.

    It's not about blocking non-local topics specifically, but about blocking any topics I know I don't care about. If I don't care what's happening in Switzerland, I should be able to block feddit.ch. If I know I don't care about sports, I should be able to block fanaticus.social. If I don't want to see nsfw, I should be able to block lemmynsfw and pornlemmy. And so on. There already are tools to do it at least partially via apps and browser scripts.

    If I don't care about what's going on inside US, whether it's farmers strikes or school shootings or NFL or some random local laws, I'll always be stuck with blocking every darn community individually, because US = World.

    My time on this planet is limited. If I have half an hour to browse /all and I want to find some new stuff while also avoid stuff I know I don't care about, then it's a real annoyance. My blocklist is 10 pages long and most of it is US stuff... While I still keep bumping into new and new posts about this NBA team and that city. It's crazy.

    Ed: and I don't want to sound too hateful (maybe that ship has sailed), but it simply is true that most stuff I don't care about is specific to some country, and most of that is indeed tidied up in separate instances.

    Ed 2: as for search, well you can go to e.g. lemmy.ca and have everything about Canada in one place. Or mander.xyz and have all their science topics... Doesn't that make it easier to find stuff?

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