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submitted 2 years ago by hyorvenn@lemmy.world to c/general@lemmy.world

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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[-] Zenzio@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

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[-] Strangle@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

USA liberal politics, if we are being honest

There is no actual political discussion going on here, just an American liberal propaganda machine

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[-] pjhenry1216@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago

It's not that every community on lemmy.world needs to be international. There are no rules that suggest that. It's first come, first serve unless you can convince the admins or mods of the community otherwise. I also do not think majority rules should apply here aside from a petition type approach where you can just show the mods there's a strong feeling. I don't think forcing anything is the approach. So unless you already talked to them and they said no and this is simply a petition approach as a second go, I don't know what you really want to happen aside from venting (which is also legitimate). But considering you're suggesting that things should change, I'm wary of the way in which you think these changes should be allowed to be affected.

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[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Can we change the sub icon then? Since it's wearing an American flag hat thing?

[-] Metal_Zealot@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

You can't even join a different instance to avoid to influx of annoying Redditors polluting the quality of content.

Reddit formed bad online habits in people that DONT need to be brought here. I like it here, but I like it because it's NOT REDDIT

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[-] darkkite@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

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[-] Metal_Zealot@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

If Lemmy.World just becomes Reddit 2.0, with shitty mods and annoying niche ~~subreddits~~ communities, I'm going to hate Lemmy just as much.

[-] euphoria@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago

what is "annoying niche subreddits communities". are people not allowed to fill niches?

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[-] Ab_intra@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I agree. US is not the only country in the world, and should not dictate a community like this. If Americans want to discuss politics they should make a com about that, and let the general /c/politics be international politics.

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