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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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[-] ShroOmeric@lemmy.world 190 points 1 year ago

More than weird, it should be corrected.

[-] TerryMathews@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

How quickly we want to become Reddit I guess.

[-] MaxVerstappen@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago

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

[-] TerryMathews@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

I was more meaning wanting the admins to fuck around with the communities a la /u/spez.

[-] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 18 points 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.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] Neato@kbin.social 18 points 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 16 points 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 8 points 1 year ago

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

[-] ShroOmeric@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

in that context.

[-] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Or Android and then lock it.

[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

That seems to be the nature of people who want to discuss politics online.

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