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.
US people are way too blind to the existence of the outside world. I’m sure they have no idea that Lemmy.World is not in the US. I’m not really sure what could be done about this other than making a new more broad politics community. I’d prefer the generic named community to be the one that is the most broad and then if you wanted only US politics to make a more specific community such as !USPolitics@lemmy.world.
Or you know, !worldpolitics could be a thing and you could stop telling other people how to think and behave.
I’m not telling people how to think and behave. That is a weird thing to say in my opinion. I’m sharing my thoughts and feeling. I don’t mind if people disagree or have counter points to make. That is the nature of discussion.
You clearly have an agenda in asking the question. There’s no problem with that, but pretending you don’t is… weird.
Unless non-American politics is being deleted then it is just who the more prolific posters are.
We all have preferences, but unless you convince the admins to be onboard for moderating communities so that they all follow a specific rule and can’t be localized unless it’s part of the name, I’d say let it go. I am not comfortable with the idea of allowing majority rules to simply take over a community simply because they think they have better use for the name.
Politics was my first blocked community on Lemmy. Then every other US politics community that has sprung up. They’re either echo chambers or flame wars and it’s irritating to use the internet as an escapism and run into arguments daily.
and run into arguments daily.
The same arguments daily! Even as a politically active American it’s utterly boring and unnecessary. Yes, we get it, you hate $PoliticalTribe and feel that you need to show everyone how awful they are. Yes, fine, they are truly terrible. Now lets talk about something else for a minute.
More than weird, it should be corrected.
Well, that community is just as toxic and block-worthy as the reddit sub already. Mission accomplished.
I was more meaning wanting the admins to fuck around with the communities a la /u/spez.
It should change its name to US Leftist Politics. The mod u/YoBuckStopsHere is responsible for 80 percent of the posts and its comes with their bias. Their mods also delete posts and dont enforce the TOS. If you want to have any educated discussion about politics, thats not the place. Its a very close minded, hostile crowd over there.
Are the admins deleting global content or something? If not, wouldn’t correcting it just be more people from other countries posting their own political news?
You can’t even join a different instance to avoid to influx of annoying Redditors polluting the quality of content.
Reddit formed bad online habits in people that DONT need to be brought here. I like it here, but I like it because it’s NOT REDDIT
I don’t understand this “them vs us” mentality. People are people. Outside of just yourself, you can never designate whether someone will generate quality content based solely on where they came from or what they did previously. If you want niche, joining an instance that literally designated itself as general purpose was a bad idea in the first place.
The US have a world series for American football/American rugby which only they compete in. America is… errrm interesting.
American football has the Superbowl. The World Series is for baseball, which is very much a global effort. Canada is the only other country that has a team (Toronto Bluejays), but MLB players are recruited from all over the world. Shohei Ohtani is from Japan, Julio Rodriguez, Carlos Santana , and a bunch of other players are from the Dominican Republic, Jose Caballero is from Panama… You get the picture. The MLB World Series is most certainly a series for the best baseball players in the world.
A bit of a delayed response, but I didn’t want to ignore it. I do stand corrected on many of those points. I don’t agree with the last sentence, but I appreciate the accuracy and will upvote.
For something to be a world series, I would hope there would be teams around the world that represents the sport and compete against each other. For example, in football (your soccer), you have a world cup which has countries from around the world competing, and you have competitions like the Europa Champions League (the best clubs in Europe competing). I think one individual from a country doesn’t necessarily indicate country participation.
Could a rich - say - Saudi not create a club, buy the best players, and then compete as a Saudi team?
Asking for a friend.