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.
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.