Please. All of this is mostly US politics. Please do not hijack “world news” to mean whatever new shit Desantis or someone else said this week. Every other magazine/community/whatever is already full of that shit. Please.
Please. Please. Please.
US politics already swamp out most of the content on the entire fediverse. It may seem like the world to you but there’s almost 200 countries on this planet that are not the US.
PLEASE DO NOT.
Thank you.
So, submit more non US news?
Yeah I don’t think this is something planned you can turn a dial on. People are just posting their news and the origin of people here probably skews heavily US.
Hey, not for nothing but the US is sick and teetering on the precipice of Facism. If the US goes over the edge, then Fascism will be its main export as “Freedom” is today. That has worldwide implications.
Right now our domestic politics are everyone’s problem.
That is NOT to say there aren’t other problems worthy of airtime here. Its been hot recently, have you noticed? Nobody seems to be serious about doing anything substantive about that. Let’s talk about it.
There is a devastating war on in Ukraine threatening not only global stability, but also the world’s supply of staple grains, rare earths, helium oil and natural gas. With a cloid of nuclear chaos draped over it. Talk about it.
Israel is running roughshod over the Palestinian state. (Irony, no?) Talk about it.
China is flxing its financial and geoplitical muscle in the AIPAC region. Ths is the next world war setting up. Talk about it.
Africa has several bloody wars going on with both Western and Eastern powers shoveling chaos into that mess. A continent of rich nations being fleeced by the East and West. Just like always. Guess what you can do?
Central and South America are dealing with their own power struggles between Hard Right and Hard Left factions, again with undue outside influences from Eastern and Western powers. And, we cant seem to stop destroying rain forests.
Everyone is dealing with serious challenges both foreign and domestic. Post about it.
If you’re twisted about the problems in the US dominating the Hot page, then post, comment and be the change you need to see, because if you’re just gonna sit on your ass right now and complain about it, then you get what you get.
And also…? Sorry. I am NOT having a good day.
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Do you really think anyone outside the US thinks “freedom” is your main export? Lmao
I think the fact that he used scare quotes himself implies that they don’t believe the US actually exports freedom either.
Incredible that everything he wrote could be prefaced with that ridiculous assertion lol. It’s like having a large gem topped with a turd.
Meh, Europe has been dealing with fascist and other extremist people in politics for 20 years on a larger scale, and in some circles and areas of the world it’s never gone away. It’s nothing new, we just know better how to deal with them and they come and go. Instead of thinking it’s some new American thing the rest of the world needs to learn about, you should learn how politics elsewhere works.
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I don’t doubt we’re all fucked, but I don’t see how that means that I need to read about every school shooting, every Trump’s fart or every nonsense Musk says 300 times on my timeline. That thing about police dogs dying yesterday, on world news, that was also quite a pearl.
True enough. Americans may make up a large portion of the fedi…
But it is true the Americans are less aware of how the US fits into the world scene.
And US stuff posted here should be framed in a way that acknowledges how the story related to the world outside the US. I’d think they would be a major thing.
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Problem is that these Americans talk. A lot.
The grim reaper in Monty Python wasn’t just whining. The struggle is real.
If it is a story from the US that would make international news if it were in another country, it should be posted here. I’m from Canada, US politics is world news to me. Their wretched politics seeps across our border, it’s material to my day to day life to stay abreast of the broad current events in the US, just like the UK.
“World news” and no news about India and Pakistan’s latest shenanigans. lmao.
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Thats’s entirely a question of moderation. I do not.know how actively this community is moderated.
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People commenting “be the change you want to see” like it’s their first day in the internet.
Mods will either need to step up and ban US news, or folks who care will need to find a new comm that only allows international news.
Reddit had a good system for this (gasp)
News was for US news, Worldnews specifically banned US news. If you wanted US news you went to news, if you wanted to catch up on news elsewhere you went to worldnews.
This system right now only serves Americans and until a split is put in place it will only serve Americans because the only posts people will see will be the ones all the Americans upvote
It was an ok-ish system which could be justified by reddit being a US-based company. It would have been better for the US to have its own US named politics sub. But the fediverse isn’t based in one country, so the names can be a bit misleading for anyone browsing without Reddit-specific legacy knowledge.
There does need to be some way of reducing at least the scattershot crossposting in multiple places for the exact same content though. I tried to subscribe to multiple news and politics communities to get more globally sourced media and comments, but instead it’s the exact same US-internal news links in triplicate from the same user. It’s frequently interesting news, but not necessarily globally impactful enough to take up most of the screen.
I would support there being a US news, or similar pattern. Just calling US news, :news" is ummm… it’s odd. It assumes the US is the center of things - and we aren’t. And may be even less central as the world catches up (on the things we get right/might).
Or mods need to ban those who are whining. Look at the side bar: news from around the world, not news impacting the world. Don’t like it? Down vote it, and post more content that you’d like to see.
US is literally becoming a menace to the World.
Always has been
/l/politics already ran me off for trying to opine in on a more diverse political discourse than just US news.
Mod told me, “…all politics is local, and few care about international politics. You also have a language barrier that also makes global political forums less interactive.”
Then banished my opinion.
What kind of cult are they running over there?
I would take it with a grain of salt. From my experience, 9/10 users who complain about a ban embellish it so they look like they were in the right.
Oh I just noticed the little logo for them is the stupid uncle sam hat wearing lemming. well at least the .world one is.
LAME
Tbf, the lemmy.world politics community does have rules stating US-only posts. They could have chosen a better name, but they didn’t. World news doesnt have any such rules so it’s hard to know if their intent was foreign affairs related news between various countries or just news from around the world. Until they clarify, folks will likely interpret how they wish, and unfortunately it looks like that’s gonna lead to a bunch of US centric news (based on observation, though I don’t know why). Posting it in politics or uspolitics would reach a better audience, but folks are gonna do what they do.
In my opinion, the mods chose the name because US politics is the only news that matters to them. They could very easily open themselves up to other countries’ political news but they resist that. It just seems stupid to act like the US is the main character.
So it’s like the ‘world’ in ‘world series’?
Ok? I don’t really care what their reasoning is. It’s hardly a big deal.
When I grew weary of a specific perspective in certain places, and wanted to see a broader diversity… I started threads with citations from that viewpoint/fact-set.
It’s not the mods job to feed us threads. Their job is to keep things civil and to be fair to everyone who choses to participate.
I am aware of a mod’s role. What you said would make sense if it wasn’t stated in the rules themselves that only US politics is allowed in c/politics.
Hey it’s politics so it’s probably some dumb ass ex-military fools complaining that the government didn’t help them fuck others enough. I don’t know I ran away when all my conversations kept vanishing mid post.
Wait do they think local is only for the USA? like somehow outside their borders local politics don’t exist because it is all some how “international”? Wait, does that mean they think when the USA does foreign policy that it is not “international”?
Wow, the mental gymnastics needed to be a member of the USA must be tiring.
They’re trying to defend their choice of community name (arguably not doing a good job in my opinion). A lot of people have been complaining in other communities and I think they’re getting defensive. Personally I think they chose poorly but ultimately it’s not my call, so whatever. Only ones who can force them to change would be lemmy.world mods. They’re saying there’s no such thing as generic politics and that it’d all be local to somewhere so their claim to the name is fine (at least that’s my interpretation based on what you said). Again, I disagree with the quality of their choice but I accept that it’s their choice.
We won’t know because the discussion is forbidden. I’m sure they’ll point to some ever changing reason like all good politicians
We need to make a new /I/politics then. I think we should call it USpolitics and the first rule is no Politics from the US. If people ask why, we can say politics was already taken by a group that only allows politics from the US.
Discussion is forbidden everyone!
Free speech for thee fuck me…no fuck you
Just follow the rules and you won’t have issues.
I already left your little circle jerk bro leave me alone creep
Just keeping the record clear. Modlogs are public so everyone can see why your comments were removed.
I have not seen any “hostile mods” on lemmy.world and everyone has the ability to put in a username in the modlog and see that you are lying. You had two comments removed total, but because of being uncivil to community members.
We should create a community named worldnewsnotusa.
I’m guessing the U.S. isn’t in the world?
honestly, why not do what reddit did and restrict US news to a specific sublemmy
That can happen, but this is community run. It’s not like you can force people to only post where you want them too. Those communities already exist. And as far as I can tell, it’s not breaking any rules in this community. Discussions need to be opened with the mods to define clearer rules and maybe enforce the rules themselves or find volunteers to do so. But this post isn’t the solution.
