This is another example of US centrism.
This is politics@lemmy.WORLD.
From the name there is no indication that this wouldn’t be about world politics.
Please rename the community or change the subject to world politics and create a community like uspolitics@lemmy.world.
Edit: For all those saying “Well, just post stuff that’s not about the US”:
The issue is that currently the rules forbid exactly that.
Rules
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- Must be articles relevant to US political news.
This is the point that should change. It’s not about how many posts will then be US-specific or not, it’s just about whether you are allowed to post about non-US-stuff.
I agree but looking at the community’s avatar and intro I think it is a lost cause.
"Welcome migrating redditors to the new US political news community. "
But it’s not in the url and it’s not in the name.
Again, I agree but the mention of reddit tells me they are just trying to recreate r/politics in the fediverse.
When I first saw m/politics I knew it would be US centric.
The saddest thing I see here is people creating clones of subs, making themselves the mod and the subs lie empty as they don’t want to actually create content just be a mod. They are not creating a community, they are just name squatting.
I doubt it’d even due to cloning. It’s just due to how Americans refer to politics. America is much more insulted from world events, so world politics is less talked about except in how it affects America. News stations, media, television, academia, everything, generally refers to it as “politics”.
Ultimately, that being said, this is a terrible precedent to overthrow a community that has broken no rules. It’s mob mentality and censorship. It is in violation of the fediverse principles. I even agree the naming convention would be better, but I don’t think it should happen unless the admins make a rule.
What?
I don’t see any pitchforks being waved in the thread.
Can you point to a comment that even vaguely suggests what you claim?
What?
Asking (politely) a sub name to reflect its content is mob mentality and censorship.?
This is not the first post on the topic.
Edit: if you wanted to ask nicely, you ask the mods. Not the literal population. The population can only affect change through one means. The mods can change it through another. Social dynamics are a thing. You reading the word “please” doesn’t make it polite. Especially since you yourself made denigrating comments in this post on the topic already. Don’t act dumb.
Then post comments in threads where they are relevant as that will avoid this sort of confusion.
What? Are you having a stroke? What is this responding to? How is this a logical response?
What are you talking about? No one is saying “Delete this channel”, but rather “Either change the name of the channel to USpolitics or remove the rule that forbids discussing non-US politics in the ‘politics’ channel”.
If you think that asking for the bare minimum fairness that the name “politics” shouldn’t be a default of the US, your problem isn’t that your country is being treated unfairly, but rather that you want your country to be treated with privilege.
You can’t rename a community as far as I’m aware.
So you are asking that.
You’re asking them to either create a new community from scratch or… change the meaning of the community to something they don’t want to do (otherwise that’s what they would have done).
Fairness? Are we four years old? They followed the rules. That’s fair. They got it first. Create a community on another server. It’s the damn fediverse. That’s the entire point. Lemmy.world isn’t literally the world. Stop promoting centralization with this crap.
I hate to blow your mind at this hour of the day, but every country refers to their own politics as just “politics”.
I mean, if you’re on that wavelength you’re gonna freak out when you hear what Italians call Italian food.
I think you’re missing the point. Try harder. And use context. Just think about what this whole post is about.
Petition the admins to create community rules. Otherwise I see no issue. I don’t follow it, but I also don’t think you can steam roll a community that hasn’t broken any rules simply because of your feelings.
Who’s talking about steamrolling? Is asking steamrolling now?
All I did was literally what you say. I petition the mods to please do the change, and a lot of people followed.
Of the ~10k subscribed people, ~2% upvoted this post in the last two hours while ~0.3% downvoted. That’s some significant numbers. Let’s see how it goes over the next day or so.
But none of that is steamrolling. As if anyone of the users here had the power to actually change something…
Considering people have been posting about this issue for much longer than a few days, I’m guessing nothing will happen. You aren’t the first to complain. That’s why I’m salty about it. It’s pointless and annoying. Maybe something will happen simple because people won’t shut up about it. People complain more here than they do on reddit about this stuff, at least relative to other content. Something so insignificant as the name of a community on one single server. I really don’t want to start having to get community names approved by admins or something. I don’t know how else you’d expect to tackle this problem.
As far as I know, there’s no way to migrate a community. You’re asking them to shutdown and start a new one.
All because they got a community name that you think should belong to some other group.