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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.

    • Kichae@kbin.social
      2113·
      1 year ago

      It also directly goes against their rule 3 which is “no discrimination”.

      No, in a space that’s dominated by Americans, and where the base politics forum is US-only, this isn’t discrimination. It’s carving out a space for everyone else.

      You don’t get to take over every space your eyes fucking see. You’re not Mufasa.

      • Buelldozer@lemmy.world
        21·
        1 year ago

        You don’t get to take over every space your eyes fucking see.

        American politics in a nutshell.

        • DarraignTheSane@lemmy.world
          22·
          1 year ago

          Then you’d agree that c/politics should allow any political news and discussion from around the world and not just U.S. politics, correct?

        • Thassodar@lemm.ee
          45·
          1 year ago

          By your logic bathrooms are discriminatory as well. Each instance can set its own rules, if you don’t like the rule then block that instance. Problem solved.

        • WhoRoger@lemmy.world
          24·
          1 year ago

          It’s negative discrimination - when you try to limit the overwhelming power of one group over all others. That’s the reason why lots of governments have laws that mandate e.g. the minimum number of female employees etc. It is to mantain some balance.

          All kinds of world news is dominated by USA relations anyway. People don’t need that and to read about every school shooting and presidential fart as well.

          Another topic, but related: I mod at [email protected]. Since basically all the ps-related news is about the PS5, I’m asking people to post news and stuff specific to PS5 into its own community. Am I discriminating against PS5 users? Perhaps, but what’s the point of having two comms with 99% copypasted content, with anything else being drowned?

        • Kichae@kbin.social
          18·
          1 year ago

          Ok, but what you described is literally discrimination against americans. Just because they’re american, doesn’t mean its not discrimination.

          Oh noes! Sumeting isn’t abowt me! Dis must be wut discwiminashun is! Help! Help! I’m bean oppressed!

          QQ all day long, I guess.

          If you changed the word “US” to a middle eastern country, im sure that’d receive a lot of backlash, but since you mentioned the US its acceptable. /s

          Your convenient and bad-faith lack of understanding of power imbalances doesn’t make you not a giant crybaby. Go home. Y’all seem to love your isolationist imperial hellscape, just stay there and keep your nose out of what other people are doing. The rest of us don’t want you around, anyway.

    • hyorvenn@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      I suppose it’s also a remnant of the reddit community. I agree it sounds weird, but it was also the result of the limitations of Reddit. I don’t think you could easily create a tag for each country, and even then, it wasn’t user friendly to filter them based on your preferences. So because of this, and because r/politics was already US only to begin with, it was just the easy solution to get every other news content.

    • bloubz@lemmygrad.ml
      22·
      1 year ago

      It’s not forbidding US related content, it’s preventing post about internal US affairs that we don’t care about