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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.

  • daniskarma@lemmy.worldEnglish
    102·
    1 year ago

    I suppose it’s about moderation. It would be a bad idea to talk about European or south American politics if there’s only US moderation. Política is a very touchy matter and needs a very good and diverse moderation team.

    • Netto Hikari@social.fossware.spaceEnglish
      144·
      1 year ago

      No, it’s about Americans always thinking they come first. I was told so many times that “rEdDiT Is aN AmErIcAn wEbSiTe”… But now, they can’t pull that shit any more.

      I say rename the communities.

        • Netto Hikari@social.fossware.spaceEnglish
          13·
          1 year ago

          It doesn’t matter. The name is misleading. It’s a generic name and therefore should cover all politics. I’ve seen people claiming “ohh, but it’s only US mods”… Yes. I run a whole instance. Americans are welcome there, too and I’m from Germany. So?

      • Meldroc@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        I wonder how hard it would be for Lemmy devs to put in an aliasing feature, say so when a user goes to c/politics, it’ll automatically switch to c/uspolitics or something like that… That would make this easier.

          • Meldroc@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            The point of suggesting this was to make the process of renaming the communities a little easier. Users do have to be led around by the nose, don’t they?

    • pineapplefriedrice@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Which is not an issue at all. Plenty of medium-sized subs have a geographically wide spanning mod team. For a large sub like that it’s a non-issue.