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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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[–] 12 points 3 years ago (6 children)

No, it's about Americans always thinking they come first. I was told so many times that "rEdDiT Is aN AmErIcAn wEbSiTe"... But now, they can't pull that shit any more.

I say rename the communities.

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

    In this case they did come first though! They registered the /c/politics community first.

    But really they should change the display name to US Politics.

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  • [+] -6 points 3 years ago

    It doesn't matter. The name is misleading. It's a generic name and therefore should cover all politics. I've seen people claiming "ohh, but it's only US mods"... Yes. I run a whole instance. Americans are welcome there, too and I'm from Germany. So?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (3 children)

    I wonder how hard it would be for Lemmy devs to put in an aliasing feature, say so when a user goes to c/politics, it'll automatically switch to c/uspolitics or something like that... That would make this easier.

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

    Probably not hard. But that doesn't solve the problem that a generic term is used for something US only on a platform that isn't US first.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    The point of suggesting this was to make the process of renaming the communities a little easier. Users do have to be led around by the nose, don't they?

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