[Meta] Can we rename this community to USA politics? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by sebi@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

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As most posts are focused on USA politics why not label as such. This community should focus on world-politics or general politic-focused discussions.

Like how parties across different countries do their campaigns, not about how Trump said, he would do a backflip if xy happened.

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[-] geosoco@kbin.social 27 points 1 year ago

People don't want to go to anime_titties for global politics anymore? what is this world coming to?

[-] dlove67@feddit.nl 20 points 1 year ago

The "About" of this community explicitely refers to US politics, it's a holdover from /r/politics which this seems to be meant to be a replacement for.

[-] JoBo@feddit.uk -5 points 1 year ago

Yes. That's the point. It's ridiculous.

[-] loobkoob@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Especially because it's a lemmy.world community. If it was on a US-specific instance then it'd be fine but, as it is, it's a pretty bad case of US defaultism.

[-] ThiefUserPermissions@lemmy.myserv.one 7 points 1 year ago

Lemmy does not support renaming yet. Would mean all federated instances would immediately stop getting the pushed instance.

[-] mo_ztt@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Isn't it possible to change the "display name" even if it's still /c/politics in the URL though?

[-] ThiefUserPermissions@lemmy.myserv.one 5 points 1 year ago

Yes true. You are correct they could change just the ‘display name’ so the description aligns to what you expect.

[-] Pratai@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

You’re free to create your own. That’s the beauty of this whole thing.

[-] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Everything your asking for is already linked in the sidebar.

https://lemmy.world/c/globalpolitics

[-] CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world 3 points 1 year ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !globalpolitics@lemmy.world

[-] billwashere@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

The one thing I truly miss are my own multi-reddits. I could group and name them whatever I liked. Come on Lemmy devs, I know you can do it, if even only at the client level.

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