Please rename the community to US Politics if that is the only topic allowed.
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Just unsubscribed after this post, I was wondering why my feed was full of local American politics.
Lemmy world -> politics = USA.. it feels so wrong but well, the block button is there for something, isn't it?
Oh, damn, I subscribed to the wrong community. Sucks.
I thought this was about world politics and it turns out it's just (again) US centrism.
I think I can mention it. I mean, why not?
There was a cool subreddit back there, r/USdefaultism. We should do something like that here.
Seriously. This is egregious enough that it makes me wonder if admins can rename communities.
whats even more egregious is the errant space after "politics" making it read "politics @lemmy.world"
Come on, they're the World Series champions.
Kinda gross how chauvinist americans are in taking the default term "politics" instead of "US politics" while ignoring international affairs. It was gross on reddit and it's gross here.
Theres no political debate happening here lol. Just a lot of circular tugging.
Isn't that just 10k subscribers in your local instance?
I think you're right, which means it's way bigger.
Congrats! The trolls are here so you know you've arrived. Thanks for the hard work.
Our stalkers too! You don't become a moderator of a politics community expecting to be everyone's buddy, friend, or pal.
Rename yourselves US politics.
Really would be renamed US politics in my opinion since this is a .world instance.