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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Please rename the community to US Politics if that is the only topic allowed.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Just unsubscribed after this post, I was wondering why my feed was full of local American politics.

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

Or just join some other place if you don’t like this place.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Lemmy world -> politics = USA.. it feels so wrong but well, the block button is there for something, isn't it?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seriously. This is egregious enough that it makes me wonder if admins can rename communities.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

whats even more egregious is the errant space after "politics" making it read "politics @lemmy.world"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Come on, they're the World Series champions.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Theres no political debate happening here lol. Just a lot of circular tugging.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Isn't that just 10k subscribers in your local instance?

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

I think you're right, which means it's way bigger.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Congrats! The trolls are here so you know you've arrived. Thanks for the hard work.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Our stalkers too! You don't become a moderator of a politics community expecting to be everyone's buddy, friend, or pal.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Rename yourselves US politics.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Really would be renamed US politics in my opinion since this is a .world instance.

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