C/politics@lemmy.world being US only is weird
C/politics@lemmy.world being US only is weird
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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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It's not that every community on lemmy.world needs to be international. There are no rules that suggest that. It's first come, first serve unless you can convince the admins or mods of the community otherwise. I also do not think majority rules should apply here aside from a petition type approach where you can just show the mods there's a strong feeling. I don't think forcing anything is the approach. So unless you already talked to them and they said no and this is simply a petition approach as a second go, I don't know what you really want to happen aside from venting (which is also legitimate). But considering you're suggesting that things should change, I'm wary of the way in which you think these changes should be allowed to be affected.
I don't want to launch a petition to be honest, I just wanted to see what the other members of the instance thought about it (mainly because I wondered if Lemmy.world was in fact mostly composed of US members). I agree that a community should not be renamed/removed if it does not break any rule or do anything that deserve such a treatment.
As I said in other posts, not all communities on Lemmy.world must be international, that would not make any sense. But I would not create a c/photography community and ban any non french content for example. If a community is specific to one country, it's a reasonable approach to say it in the name if any member of the instance has not more chance to belong to this country than another.
You're absolutely correct it's a reasonable approach. I don't disagree. I honestly would prefer that as well. But I don't get confused when I see something outside of that. If they're used to talking politics in person, they may not normally call it US politics. Or maybe they simply weren't thinking at the time. Or maybe they just thought it'd be more popular and didn't think of the downsides.
There's plenty of entirely legitimate reasons why the name could be what it is. I don't think it's weird. Again, I'd prefer otherwise, as based on name along id assume one thing, but upon visiting and seeing another, it wouldn't cause me to stumble. Like, I feel like this post would have made more sense just commenting how many US Americans are weird like that and just default. I blame exceptionalism myself, but that's just my gut.
And to be fair, it's not like naming a community "photography" and expecting only US photography. It'd be more like calling it "healthcare" or "government" or something that is commonly talked about without the "US" designator within this country.