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C/[email protected] <mailto:C/[email protected]> being US only is weird (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I guess it is a consequence of the Reddit migration where the habit is just keeping the old community name. But having C/Politics being US only on Lemmy.world, an instance that aims to be international (hence the name), seems weird to me.

Would have been cool to give up this assumption that everything is related to US by default when moving away from Reddit. I mean, even the canadian political news of Lemmy.ca is CanadaPolitics.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Personally, I think a language filter would be nice. For example instances (or even community/magazine level) could have a default language property and you'd be allowed to filter on that.

Wouldn't help with the US-defaultism-problem though. English is

a) spoken in Europe as well (I mean... that's where it's from)
b) lingua franca for all the world

The fact that most of the world can't really filter English discussions but English native speakers can filter almost everyone else's just by language alone is part of the problem. Besides, you can already filter which languages you want to see in your profile settings.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I don't have a problem with default-US on principle. I don't want to filter out anything other than what I can't read.

And don't make assumptions. I can't filter based on language. I really think most people are just failing this whole fediverse concept. I'm not even on lemmy.world let alone even using Lemmy.

I can't filter based on language as far as I can tell on Kbin. I can already block communities/magazines, users, and entire domains for that matter. Kbin already "solved" this problem. My issue here is that it's not a problem. If an instance is general purpose and a community doesn't break any of its rules, I see no reason to be upset that someone took a community name before someone else. I'm not about to get behind the censorship bandwagon of majority rules (or maybe not even majority, just loud) taking over communities because they feel they can use the name in a better way.