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C/[email protected] <mailto:C/[email protected]> being US only is weird (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy.world, an instance that aims to be international (hence the name), seems weird to me.

I never got the impression that this instance specifically aimed to be international. It always felt like the aim was to replace Reddit in whatever way that manifests itself. I never got the impression that every community needed to be equally inclusive of content from all countries.

As for [email protected], I think part of the problem is that changing the rule would result in very little change since

So it may be better to just keep the US users isolate where they are and create a new sub that would just be less dominated by those users.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

From the Lemmy.world description:

"A generic Lemmy server for everyone to use. The World’s Internet Frontpage Lemmy.world is a general-purpose Lemmy instance of various topics, for the entire world to use."

And the logo is an earth. It does not forbid any community restricted to one specific country (neither should it, it's perfectly normal), but it sure isn't specifically tied to the US. I think a fair comparison would be if c/politics was China content only, that would looks weird too (even more so because of the language but well, surely you get my point).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I just think you’re reaching to say the “world” branding has anything to do with the philosophy of the website. I think it’s cool branding and synergy with the mastodon instance. Other than that, it is no more worldly than Reddit was.

With that said, it’s no more weird that c/politics is specific to US politics than r/politics was.