C/politics@lemmy.world being US only is weird
C/politics@lemmy.world being US only is weird
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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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Is it US politics simply because there are far, far more Americans on there than from any other country (especially English-speaking)... or is it US politics because other threads are blocked and/or deleted?
There's a rather large distinction there.
We love you Canada, but let's be real here, there are almost 10x more Americans than there are Canadians, so naturally there are going to be more political stories posted about the country with the much larger population. If non-US posts are deleted, on the other hand, then that's messed up.
The latter. Rule 2 of the community is "Must be articles relevant to US political news."
Interesting. OK, so that clears things up.
Yep, nice and easy decision to block that community then lol
It's most likely because r/politics on Reddit was that way, and people tend to make subreddit clones on Lemmy.
Right, which I think is the root problem. Not all the subreddit names were great - I would have liked to have seen us try to do better - but I think many were just trying to make the correlation between communities and subreddits as obvious as possible.
I see it as kind of a first generation migrant thing. Some people are bringing as much of their reddit culture with them as they can and trying to make it the same.
But we will grow and change and create our own stuff.
IIRC, over half of Reddit's traffic was US-based. I'd be interested to see if the same is true for lemmy.world.
I think it was about 47% but it was a relative majority, or a plurality as Americans call it.
or a plurality as Americans call it.
Those silly Americans, using words in line with their definitions
Huh? Everyone uses words in line with their definitions. But New Zealand English and American English have differences.
"Plurality" isn't used in NZ English, but since there are a lot of Americans here I added it as a courtesy to make my meaning clearer.
Coming from a minority country this is just something we do.
If I were commenting about, say, what we normally call "lollies", on a predominantly British website I would add "sweets" and on a predominantly American website I would add "candy".
So less than half.
Yeah less than half, but still a bigger share than any other culture so that's how they ended up being the dominant group on most subs.
When r/politics was created, and for a vast majority of reddits existence, Americans made up a majority of reddit, and for a long time made up a supermajority.
Of course there was a US-Bias.
It was less than half.
I'm sure they would delete non-US political news if it is part of their rules.
Rule 2 of the magazine is submissions have to be about US politics.
You get outta here with your "reading the rules" stuff.
lol
...or is it US politics because other threads are blocked and/or deleted?
It's that one. From their sidebar "Welcome migrating redditors to the new US political news community."
" Rule 2: Must be articles relevant to US political news. "