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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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[–] pjhenry1216@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's not that every community on lemmy.world needs to be international. There are no rules that suggest that. It's first come, first serve unless you can convince the admins or mods of the community otherwise. I also do not think majority rules should apply here aside from a petition type approach where you can just show the mods there's a strong feeling. I don't think forcing anything is the approach. So unless you already talked to them and they said no and this is simply a petition approach as a second go, I don't know what you really want to happen aside from venting (which is also legitimate). But considering you're suggesting that things should change, I'm wary of the way in which you think these changes should be allowed to be affected.

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

I mean, we did a whole song about it like 30 or 40 years ago, β€œWe are the world…”.

[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

You could always sub to https://lemmy.world/c/news@kbin.social - kbin news magazine that has worldwide coverage

[–] DoctorTYVM@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a Canadian Politics community on Lemmy.World too. It's very small but that can change!

https://lemmy.world/c/canadapolitics

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[–] HollandJim@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Same issue on a few other c's - maybe we need to add "_nonUS" or "_US" to lemmy/c names, or wait until Lemmy adds something like flairs.

[–] darkkite@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

There's stuff that crosses boundaries though, especially when it comes to US news.

For example:

A US soldier crossed the border into North Korea and is now being held captive.

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/19/1188530348/what-we-know-about-travis-king-the-u-s-soldier-who-crossed-into-north-korea

US news? World news? Both? Neither?

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