hyorvennJul 18, 2023

C/[email protected] being US only is weird

https://lemmy.world/post/1709213

C/[email protected] being US only is weird - 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 [http://Lemmy.ca] is CanadaPolitics.

Show threaddaniskarma
I suppose it’s about moderation. It would be a bad idea to talk about European or south American politics if there’s only US moderation. Política is a very touchy matter and needs a very good and diverse moderation team.
Jul 18, 2023 at 4:39pmWeb
Show threadpineapplefriedriceJul 18, 2023
Which is not an issue at all. Plenty of medium-sized subs have a geographically wide spanning mod team. For a large sub like that it’s a non-issue.
Show threadNetto HikariJul 18, 2023

No, it’s about Americans always thinking they come first. I was told so many times that “rEdDiT Is aN AmErIcAn wEbSiTe”… But now, they can’t pull that shit any more.

I say rename the communities.

Show threadMeldrocJul 18, 2023
I wonder how hard it would be for Lemmy devs to put in an aliasing feature, say so when a user goes to c/politics, it’ll automatically switch to c/uspolitics or something like that… That would make this easier.
Show threadNetto HikariJul 19, 2023
Probably not hard. But that doesn’t solve the problem that a generic term is used for something US only on a platform that isn’t US first.
Show threadMeldrocJul 19, 2023
The point of suggesting this was to make the process of renaming the communities a little easier. Users do have to be led around by the nose, don’t they?
Show threadNetto HikariJul 20, 2023
If you’re talking about me here, I understood why you were suggesting it. But to me, that’s not the problem of c/politics in this case. They wouldn’t want to rename, if it was possible, because “AmErIcA fIrSt”.
Show threadhypelightflyJul 19, 2023
In this case they did come first though! They registered the /c/politics community first.
Show threadNetto HikariJul 19, 2023
It doesn’t matter. The name is misleading. It’s a generic name and therefore should cover all politics. I’ve seen people claiming “ohh, but it’s only US mods”… Yes. I run a whole instance. Americans are welcome there, too and I’m from Germany. So?