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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.

  • Norgur@kbin.social
    3·
    1 year ago

    Personally, I think a language filter would be nice. For example instances (or even community/magazine level) could have a default language property and you’d be allowed to filter on that.

    Wouldn’t help with the US-defaultism-problem though. English is

    a) spoken in Europe as well (I mean… that’s where it’s from)
    b) lingua franca for all the world

    The fact that most of the world can’t really filter English discussions but English native speakers can filter almost everyone else’s just by language alone is part of the problem. Besides, you can already filter which languages you want to see in your profile settings.