I’d hope my fellow Americans here on Lemmy are a little more informed than our run of the mill mouth breathers.
I don’t know. Some time ago, my 20-year-old, Ron-Paul-adoring self was ranting and raving to everyone who would listen about how SOPA and PIPA were about to destroy the internet.
In other words, there are occasionally some people on the right who latch onto good ideas (like a free and open internet) that seemingly require tech knowledge.
You are not. Politics should be world politics and countries can have their specified version like “US Politics” or whatever.
No one is stopping anyone from putting world politics and news in those threads are they?
Like moderators aren’t removing content.
I feel like we could use some more submissions from these other regions.
No one is stopping anyone from putting world politics and news in those threads are they?
The mods over there are, actually. Read the rules there.
Yeah reading the mod log there. Those are Reddit mods on lemmy thinking their fiefdom is hyper specific when lemmy just isn’t that big to have country specific politics communities.
And frankly to remove videos of relevant nature or articles because “hunter biden isn’t a politician” is just not using your big boy brain. Of course he’s not a politician but his case sure as hell is political and is being used as a political football. To argue it’s not is just crazy.
Sounds like, in light of this, the instance admin should probably take a look. Seems a little crazy to me.
Thats a valid option. Problem is, the user base of most social media si overwhelmingly from north america. When having not as many users from other regions, its difficult to have a balance. I agree that there should be a community specifically for US news and politics. Also, i bet the second most large user base is western european.
I mean. Lemmys filters arent always just straight upvote related though.
Things like Hot or even New Comments are based on clicks and discussion/participation.
Its probably true that certain countries or events would dominate some of these more active submission (ie: Ukraine War, US Politics) but theres still plenty to be seen.
I dont know. There will come a point where some level of delineation is needed. But the complaining and arrogance, especially coming from someone that has posted a total of 1 other time, seems…drama.
I agree !politics shouldn’t be explicitly US centric, but news is not per their rules. Post more non-American focused stories and be the change you want to see in the world. As for !politics, the first come first served nature of claiming communities means the Reddit migrators just created a clone of the US focused subreddit. It is what it is, I don’t see it being an issue as anyone can make another politics community on another server.
It’s because a lot of people migrating from Reddit landed on .world and created or found their familiar named communities and that’s how it was on Reddit - US centric top level type communities.
Is .world the best place for US centric communities? Maybe not just based on nomenclature but since you asked why, that’s the reasoning. It’s in the description of Politics specifically (it even calls out migrating Redditors).
It’s because to Americans (including myself), .com is the US domain.
There’s google.com and google.de. There’s amazon.com and amazon.co.uk, etc.
.us is reserved for government’s sites by social convention. Someone can have a private .us site, but it’s a bit odd that they didn’t just use the .com.
Agree, but where is the big US based feddit.com instance? The only one I can think of is reddthat.com, and I’m not even sure it’s US based.
LW is in Europe, SJW in Canada, Lemm.ee managed by an Estonian citizen, Sopuli by a Finn, Lemmy.ml in France
Probably because “Politics” is an english word and of the English-speaking users, Americans make up the largest portion.
I would expect Politique to be full of French politics and Politik to be about German politics and política to be about Spanish (or maybe Mexican) politics.
That is a disingenous argument, since we are mostly all using English on the internet.
That is probably the most incorrect statement I’ve heard in a while. The internet is, to paraphrase Douglas Adams, big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. The english speaking part of the internet is a good chunk of that but it’s certainly not “most” of it.
‘Politik’ is the same in the Nordic countries (Denmark, Sweden and Norway) as well, so that would have to be split up as well. The same could be said about politics as Ireland, Great Britain, New Zealand, Australia and so on, have the same word for that.
If you create a community you should append the nation if it’s a common word. Otherwise it should default to worldwide.
You seem to have missed my point. The issues in any community, regardless of how many countries use the language associated with the community name, are going to favor the country with the majority of users. Unless you just register all the generic community names and squat on them, that’s just how it’s naturally going to wind up.
