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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 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

More than weird, it should be corrected.

[–] TerryMathews@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How quickly we want to become Reddit I guess.

[–] MaxVerstappen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] TerryMathews@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 1 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 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Neato@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 1 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.

[–] whenigrowup356@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.world 2 points 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.world 1 points 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.