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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.

  • outrageousmatter@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    1 year ago

    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.worldEnglish
      1013·
      1 year ago

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

      • Sarmyth@lemmy.worldEnglish
        201·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • Ab_intra@lemmy.worldEnglish
          210·
          1 year ago

          You really think Lemmy has a content issue lol?

          And of course free labor don’t grow on trees but I’m pretty sure there are many that would be willing.

      • khajimak@lemmy.worldEnglish
        71·
        1 year ago

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

        • Ab_intra@lemmy.worldEnglish
          13·
          1 year ago

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