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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.

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[–] outrageousmatter@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'll speak to the moderators, if we should unlock it for international politics, but right now it's US moderators and I barely know italy politics or EU politics but am Interested in adding them.

[–] Ab_intra@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Then they should get more europeans, why should there only be mods from the US lol.

[–] Sarmyth@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's so reductive, it's absurd. It's free labor to moderate these things.

Who is they? And where do these people magically spring from? If lemmy has a low content issue, surely there would be a low amount of people willing to moderate as well.

[–] khajimak@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Because Americans were apparently the only people who wanted to work for free

[–] outrageousmatter@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder if it has to do with r/politics being US only, I really don't know mate.

[–] Ab_intra@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

It's the same issue. Not all politics is american. It should be uspolitics instead.