Comment on Politics
Blaze@lemmy.zip 22 hours agoWhy do you want to refer to Rimu about the name, while you didn’t consult him in the first place to create this community?
If you are looking for precedent on other instances, there is !AskUSA@discuss.online and !casualeurope@piefed.social who clearly scope their demographics.
Beehaw has !usnews@beehaw.org
To me, “politics” while allowing politics from any country is fine, but I’m American so maybe that is just my exceptionalism.
I just feel like if want it to be worldwide, you will see people post politics from any country in the world, then people not interested in those politics won’t see how it’s relevant to them, thus hindering the success of the community. Also, it wouldn’t be a similarly-scope community compared to !politics@lemmy.world, so people will probably stay on it (and non-Americans will also prefer it, as it allows them to block US politics in one community without blocking themselves from the rest of the world)
Beehaw also has a much smaller audience, if your community ever get popular, you will see a lot of content.
PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 22 hours ago
Because I wasn’t intending for it to “go live” yet, I just didn’t fully grasp what it would mean to leave the box checked to publish to other instances. I mean it’s fine, I don’t see a reason to delay now that it’s published, but I had intended for more discussion and populating it with content before making it fully live.
It didn’t even occur to me that the name would be an issue. I’m open to the idea. Like I say I think it should be instance owner’s call at the end of the day, since “politics” is kind of a naturally heavily iconic community. I was actually a little bit surprised that there wasn’t one here already. I’m fine changing it if the judgement is that it should have a different name.
Blaze@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
As someone who’s not American, and is tired of seeing every online space being made into “this topic, for the USA”, please consider changing to !uspolitics
This is a feeling you can see quite a lot on Lemmy, this isn’t an online platform owned by a US company, still the neutral communities tend to become US-centric, probably as people were replicating Reddit when we first arrived here.
On another note, to add to what @Skavau@piefed.social was saying, here is what !news@piefed.world looks like , using tags for both location (US, world) and type of content (politics) piefed.world/c/news
PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 22 hours ago
Yeah, I get that. But also, 2 of the 5 stories I posted were not US politics stories. I would like to be able to post stuff about what’s going on in the world without needing to sideline it if it isn’t US stuff.
I do get what you’re saying. Like I say, I’m just going to defer to letting the person who’s organizing the top-level communities on piefed.social have the final say. I did add a “US Politics” flair, to make it a little easier to block US Politics stories if that’s what people want to do, but I feel like more likely the people who don’t want US politics in their feed are just going to block the whole community regardless which is completely fine (and I categorized it topic-wise accordingly).
Like I say, I do get it, I’m just deferring the decision to someone else instead of you and me arguing back and forth about it.
Blaze@lemmy.zip 20 hours ago
Isn’t that what !world@quokk.au is for? You’ll see it referenced in my other comment as well.