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submitted 11 months ago by hyorvenn@lemmy.world to c/general@lemmy.world

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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[-] Izzy@lemmy.world 57 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

I don't think it would be out of bounds for instance admins to force such change as they see fit if it makes enough sense.

[-] MaxVerstappen@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

Or you know, !worldpolitics could be a thing and you could stop telling other people how to think and behave.

[-] Izzy@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] QHC@kbin.social 13 points 11 months ago

You clearly have an agenda in asking the question. There's no problem with that, but pretending you don't is... weird.

[-] Izzy@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

I clearly stated my opinion in which I don't even feel that strongly about. It's just some thoughts that came to mind. I'm not trying to sneakily conspire to influence things the way I want them to be. If stating how I feel is enough to accomplish this then it must be a pretty good idea.

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