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Lemmy world -> politics = USA.. it feels so wrong but well, the block button is there for something, isn't it?
Oh, damn, I subscribed to the wrong community. Sucks.
I thought this was about world politics and it turns out it's just (again) US centrism.
I think I can mention it. I mean, why not?
There was a cool subreddit back there, r/USdefaultism. We should do something like that here.
Seriously. This is egregious enough that it makes me wonder if admins can rename communities.
whats even more egregious is the errant space after "politics" making it read "politics @lemmy.world"
I never noticed that. Thanks. Now I hate it.
Non-US gang
Come on, they're the World Series champions.
Is it your belief that baseball is solely a US sport? US is just where the best players most often play. Other nations are not prohibited from the ML. See the Toronto Blue Jays (World Series champions in 1993)
c/globalpolitics is what you want.
Why create this community on the "world" instance (hosted by someone from the Netherlands) and call it a general name but make it specific only to then tell people to go to the community that needs to use a specific name to cover a general subject (which they need to do because you hijacked the name they would logically have used when you should have used a specific name)?
Because lemmy.world absorbed a lot of reddit users, and this is how it was on reddit
And it shouldn't have been like that over there but we still had to make the same mistake over here? Guess Lemmy's Canada community needs to accept bigotry then, if it was like that on Reddit then it must be right 🤷
I'm just being descriptive. You asked why, that's why.
I'm not saying it should be that way, or that it should not be changed now that it is that way. I'm here for US politics but I'd be happy if this became a world politics community and I had to subscribe to c/USPolitics (or whatever) as well.
Why do you think there are rules for community names? There are no rules or expectations (at least not yet) for community names.
The well-known answer for why this community is named this is that it is a recreation of another community that was also named this.
And it shouldn't have been like that over there but we still had to make the same mistake over here?
I never mentioned rules, don't put words in my mouth.
If you don't think of it as a mistake, simply an inconsequential detail, it makes perfect sense to retain it as a form of identity, so people that switched platforms can feel like they moved as a group.
I wasn't putting words in your mouth, you are acting like they have somehow done something incorrectly, but that would imply there is a correct way, which would imply rules for how to do it, official, unspoken, whatever idc.
Anyone can make their own group on a different instance and call it the same thing. If you don't like how lemmy.world works, don't take it out on the mods here, either find another instance, start one yourself, or if you have to, take it up with a lemmy.world admin
c/actuallesbians says hello 😅
Yes. That is how this whole fediverse thing works.
I'm in the USA but I think it's inevitable. The USA is the single largest primarily English speaking democracy in the world. Since Lemmy.world is a primarily English speaking instance, it should be expected that an American would create a politics community first and since it's the first they just call it politics.
For example, the UK is the only country in the world where they don't put the country name on their stamps. Because they invented paper stamps first in 1840.
This is not a fight worth worrying about IMO.