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PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Hm… so part of my concern about the “everything else” politics community is that I feel like it is guaranteed to not really get used all that much. There’s always going to be !ukpolitics@feddit.uk or !europe@lemmy.dbzer0.com or !canada@lemmy.ca, I feel like pretty much all the political content that is put up by denizens of whatever part of the world is going to go into a region-specific place, and the “everything but the US” community just wouldn’t get used.

I feel like the two obvious options are:

!politics@piefed.social which is for “anything” with a specific focus on political news, and in practice is 99% US politics
!uspolitics@piefed.social, which is for US politics only, i.e. the same thing but we have to have little disputes every now and then about whether something like Petro wanting to move the UN belongs there or not

I went with the first option. I really am fine with renaming it to !uspolitics@piefed.social, completely up to you.

I do get the concern from the rest of the world that it’s annoying to have US stuff as the “default” and everything else get put in its own region-specific “non default” category. Maybe uspolitics is a little more forward thinking in terms of getting away from that thinking (especially as the years go by and the US collapses in on itself like a rotten pumpkin, geopolitically speaking).

(And yeah, !world@quokk.au is fantastic, I like it. I sort of bounce between quokk.au and piefed.social currently in terms of my “main” account.)

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Blaze@lemmy.zip ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
As Rimu is fine with both, I would really please ask you to consider !uspolitics. Or if you want external feedback, we can open a thread on whatever community you see fit (could be !fedigrow@lemmy.zip , but also !world@quokk.au as it’s related too) to get additional feedback from users.

It may seem like it’s a pet peeve, but really, it’s something that’s been on the mind of a lot of people that lemmy.world, a server hosted and managed in the Netherlands, gets its main “politics” community dedicated to the USA.

I know piefed.social is based in New Zealand, but you get the idea.

I feel like pretty much all the political content that is put up by denizens of whatever part of the world is going to go into a region-specific place, and the “everything but the US” community just wouldn’t get used.

A potential solution is

!world@quokk.au for every world news (most of them are politics anyway), as it is already the case

!uspolitics@piefed.social for a US focused community

!uk_politics@feddit.uk

!canadapolitics@lemmy.ca

etc.

Note that your concern about the world community not being used it true for news as well, still !world@lemmy.world and the several country-dedicated communities (e.g. !unitedkingdom@feddit.uk , !france@jlai.lu ) are all active

unless someone has a use for it, to keep things clean, is probably better.

you can maybe keep it and just lock it, with links to the communities listed above. That prevents someone else from taking that community name.
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rimu@piefed.social ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Yes there are good arguments to be made for either option. You do you, it’s fine. All this only affects the url, you can change the title and description of a community any time… 95% of people will find the community through a UI that abstracts away the url anyway.

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- Blaze@lemmy.zip ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  95% of people will find the community through a UI that abstracts away the url anyway.
  
  I wouldn’t be so sure, there are quite a few apps that only show the URL name. I’ve recreated complete communities in the past due to this, so I know how crucial naming the community ‘correctly’ from the start is.
  
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