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
[…]
- 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 like that idea!
@squaresinger
Me too, that could be a funny lighthearted response to this.
@Sniatch if you make it (since you’re the one on lemmy.world, and it kind of has to be there) I will try to supply some content.
I come across a lot of non US politics that is too local/random/confusing for me to post elsewhere so I could send it there.
Please don’t kickstart a shitton of memey sub names like reddit. The correct thing to do is change this sub’s rules/name
Only the community owners can change that, unless you want to get the instance owner involved.
Well let’s hope the owner does it then
Agreed.
Apparently this comes up a lot, so I guess they will either do that (unlikely) or ban people posting complaints about it (more likely).