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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

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PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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- Blaze@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  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.
  
  Isn’t that what !world@quokk.au is for? You’ll see it referenced in my other comment as well.
  
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