This is another example of US centrism.
This is [email protected].
From the name there is no indication that this wouldn’t be about world politics.
Please rename the community or change the subject to world politics and create a community like [email protected].
I agree but looking at the community’s avatar and intro I think it is a lost cause.
"Welcome migrating redditors to the new US political news community. "
But it’s not in the url and it’s not in the name.
Again, I agree but the mention of reddit tells me they are just trying to recreate r/politics in the fediverse.
When I first saw m/politics I knew it would be US centric.
The saddest thing I see here is people creating clones of subs, making themselves the mod and the subs lie empty as they don’t want to actually create content just be a mod. They are not creating a community, they are just name squatting.
As an American that came from Reddit I completely agree. I never went to r/politics on Reddit for the same reason. Sixteen posts about some stupid shit Trump did or bullshit about Hunter Biden that I could not give two shits about. “Hunter Biden has porn! How scandalous!” While there is literally fucking riots and wars going on around the world because of political issues.
I see US politics as the biggest reality show ever produced. Nothing is about governing just shitting on the people from the other side.
All articles and discussion are about what the other side is doing wrong (hint: everything).
Kayfabe.
Thanks for the new word. Interesting etymology.
I agree. The name is really US-centrist. Not giving good vibes.
Bitch, other countries use english too. No country should have dibs on general words to represent something that conserns, in this case, only one country.
I have noticed the same thing about US government websites end in .gov I think no government should have that privledge. Other governments use english too. Could US officials take their head out of their asses and use an ending like .usgov
Or .gov.us, like every other country uses their tld, like .gov.uk. Only the US is conceited enough to not use their own tld.
Yes finally good thread. Please don’t just copy and paste reddit communities like this. This is an international community, so if you want to discuss US politics, name it like this at least. We don’t need to copy the dumb stuff from reddit.
But wait what’s going to happen to [email protected] then?
Why don’t you go start a different community if you don’t like this one rather than complain about it? I don’t think it’s fair to tie the location or domain of the instance to your argument. Communities should be hosted on whatever instance they want with whatever content they want.
tbf as someone who doesn’t live in the US, I can say that the name is a bit confusing.
What is confusing about it? It’s literally named “politics”.
And what should I call the politics com for my country then? The complaint is that this is US politics.
Nobody asked you or apparently gives a shit about what would be a better name for a community centered around your country’s politics or to be more specific, your preferences. If you don’t like the sub, simply stay away. Why are people complaining about something that literally nobody forced on them.
Because it is named the very vague and general name in lingua franca: politics. I guess other countries will just use their own language for politics so the most impacted are other English 1. language nations. Tho one would think of world politics first on the internet.
The name is not vague. It’s “Politics” and the content matches that. If you read the rules, as you should with any community you subscribe to, you will find that the mods intended for the discussion to be around US politics. If you are looking for politics specific to some other country then you have stumbled upon the wrong community unfortunately. Rather than complain, just move on.
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Pretend that the default of internet discussions should be your country’s.
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Complain that other people are complaining.
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Stay mad.
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There’s no problem with having a community for US politics, but then it should be called [email protected] and not [email protected].
Currently it is not allowed to post about politics (unless they are US-related) on the community called politics. That’s the issue.
It’s an issue for you. Most people would just say, oh well, and then properly fuck off.
Have you seen the votes on this post? Currently that’s 200 upvotes vs 32 downvotes. So ~2% of the subscribers upvoted in the last two hours. But I guess, these 200 people are just my multiple personalities or something.
Some instances do not allow downvotes. I don’t agree with your post but cannot downvote it.
I’m not complaining, I like no downvotes, downvotes are usually just a way for people to vent frustrations without articulating them.
But, you can’t necessarily use votes to draw the conclusions you have.
According to https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list, lemmy.world isn’t even hosted in the US, but instead in Africa.
Interesting, I wonder what the rationale is behind that?
Someone make a USpolitics sub but with politics about the whole world except the US
I like that idea!
Me too, that could be a funny lighthearted response to this.
@Sniatch if you make it (since you’re the one on lemmy.world, and it kind of has to be there) I will try to supply some content.
I come across a lot of non US politics that is too local/random/confusing for me to post elsewhere so I could send it there.
Edit: nevermind, looks like it already exists and has some US posts.
Please don’t kickstart a shitton of memey sub names like reddit. The correct thing to do is change this sub’s rules/name
