Please rename this community or change the subject
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].
Communities should be hosted on whatever instance they want with whatever content they want.
Well, not literally “whatever they want”. There are community guidelines to consider.
In this case, the problem is not the content but the name. If the title of the community is [email protected] but it has a rule where only US politics is allowed, then someone done fucked up somewhere.
It’s a pretty basic screw-up to call your community “politics” when you only allow US Politics.
It was dumb on Reddit and it is dumb here on Lemmy too, especially since Lemmy is less US-centric than Reddit to begin with.
If this were a modest community on a small instance somewhere, you would have a point.
However, [email protected] is by far the largest general politics community across the entire platform - in essence, it’s the default politics community that thousands of Lemmy users will encounter users will encounter.
It’s not too much to ask that they allow the content that the name advertizes, i.e politics in general, not just US politics.
Not all the rules can possibly be spelled out or gleaned from the title of a community.
Is your argument that it’s too hard to add two letters to the name of a community to make it clear what the subject is? [email protected] is too hard? Really?
Also, this would allow for a [email protected] to exist, that is actually about politics in general.
The current situation would be like a supermarket that’s called “General foods” and the only thing they offer is apples. If you only sell apples, that’s fine, but then call the damn store “Apples only”.
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