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.
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.
So, submit more non US news?
Thats’s entirely a question of moderation. I do not.know how actively this community is moderated.
“World news” and no news about India and Pakistan’s latest shenanigans. lmao.
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/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?
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.
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.
World News is always bound to be dominated by the news of the spoken language. While English is spoken very broadly, the US is the dominant speaker by population. Most “international” news will be written in the native language of the afflicted area. Since people here want English content, you’re going up see mostly English speaking areas. Since the US is the largest, it’ll be mostly US news.
If you don’t like it, start sourcing interesting English content about non-english locations.
English is spoken very broadly, the US is the dominant speaker by population
You did the numbers? You sure?
I bet there are more people who also speak English in India or China alone, but adding in every European country should be a large cherry on top.
While there are a lot of English speakers in India, it is not their native language. News about India will be written for Indians and will tend to use their regional language. Same goes for China and most other countries. Even in the EU where news might be interesting to other EU nations, news is often written in the affected nations language.
It’s just smart business to make your content tailored to the target audience.
It’s easier to google it than it is to live through an internet fight.
And it’s less embarrassing.
I’ve looked it up before in a similar thread.
US is literally becoming a menace to the World.
Always has been
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.
I blocked that community and it is great over here on greener pastures. Now I can talk politics on all the other communities I’m subbed to.
