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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.

      • MaxVerstappen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5414·
        1 year ago

        Well, that community is just as toxic and block-worthy as the reddit sub already. Mission accomplished.

          • WhoRoger@lemmy.worldEnglish
            18·
            1 year ago

            You can always leave to another instance or make your own if you don’t like the admins. Proper democracy in action. Wasn’t like that on Reddit.

          • ShroOmeric@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1811·
            1 year ago

            Only fair if you use a generic name like “politics” and make it only about US.

            • Neato@kbin.social
              191·
              1 year ago

              So should all instance users get to vote on what every community is for? Do the creators and mods of that community not get to decide that?

              • TerryMathews@lemmy.world
                171·
                1 year ago

                I actually took the other side of this argument when Lemmy was ramping up, that the concept of Federation needed to change to make the system more accessible to non-technical users. And I was told that my idea (federating the communities) was counter to the freedom that Lemmy was designed around.

                It can’t be both ways. It’s a cathedral, or it’s a bazaar. But if it’s a bazaar then we have to deal with the reality that sometimes people beat us to the places we want and have different ideas for what they should be.

                Nothing is stopping you from starting worldpolitics, globalpolitics, politics2 or politics on another instance.

            • snooggums@kbin.social
              102·
              1 year ago

              If it was on an instance named america.yeehaw that was clearly US centric it could make sense in that context.

            • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
              42·
              1 year ago

              True, Lemmy users act like a bunch of landed gentries and Admins really shouldn’t allow this! /s

      • Flicsmo@rammy.siteEnglish
        132·
        1 year ago

        It’s the actions that Reddit took that were the problem, not admins taking action in general. But as long as there are alternatives from federation I don’t see an issue with admins doing something about this, whether or not I agree with it.

    • whenigrowup356@lemmy.worldEnglish
      111·
      1 year ago

      Are the admins deleting global content or something? If not, wouldn’t correcting it just be more people from other countries posting their own political news?

      • Ab_intra@lemmy.worldEnglish
        23·
        1 year ago

        It’s part of the rules:

        Must be articles relevant to US political news. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed.

    • Squander@lemmy.worldEnglish
      724·
      1 year ago

      It should change its name to US Leftist Politics. The mod u/YoBuckStopsHere is responsible for 80 percent of the posts and its comes with their bias. Their mods also delete posts and dont enforce the TOS. If you want to have any educated discussion about politics, thats not the place. Its a very close minded, hostile crowd over there.