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.
I don’t know why some people are treating my complains like I’m some sort of Judge Dredd that wants to shoot everybody who makes a community I don’t like.
I’m saying, be reasonable. I wouldn’t be making a community on .world about some random 4th league football club or a hike trail in my country, I’d use an instance more suited for it. If you can’t make a new community there, ping an admin to make it for you. It’s not a big deal, and better for everybody: locals can find it more easily, and the others won’t be bothered by it by default.
The reverse is also stupid, creating general-purpose comms on country-specific instances. Once instance blocking becomes an option, nobody will find them.
For real, how is it that every bloody country can make its own instance, but only the US can’t? Doesn’t it strike you just a bit weird? I’m no more interested what’s going on in Oregon than in Frankfurt.
As far as I know, you can only create communities on your own instance. I don’t like the idea of telling people that need to create accounts elsewhere becsuse their community isn’t welcome.
A general purpose instance is general purpose. As long as it doesn’t break any rules, it should be welcomed.
And segregating the fediverse is literally not what it’s about. There shouldn’t be forced segregation.
Instances shouldn’t be localized unless that’s its purpose. If there was a feddit.us that was general purpose, I’d be fine if someone from the UK created a football community first.
There’s no such thing as a better place for something in the fediverse. There’s only not acceptable places. And general purpose has a very low bar for acceptable.
I feel like most folks don’t get the idea behind the fediverse and the multi-instance concept.
You just fail to see anyone else’s point besides yours. I already addressed your objections, and you’re unable to address mine, so I won’t be repeating myself.
Your argument is “be reasonable” and then some subjective feeling about what you feel is personally reasonable. Your reason isn’t objective. I addressed this in literally every comment in some fashion. Your feelings aren’t an argument.
Edit: especially since you never addressed the technical limitations I mentioned in any way shape or fashion. That’s a much bigger hurdle than your opinions about what fits in general purpose.