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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] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's stuff that crosses boundaries though, especially when it comes to US news.

For example:

A US soldier crossed the border into North Korea and is now being held captive.

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/19/1188530348/what-we-know-about-travis-king-the-u-s-soldier-who-crossed-into-north-korea

US news? World news? Both? Neither?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Neither, it is not relevant to anyone outside of the states.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well it's immediately relevant to NK, SK. And USA.. pretty global if you ask me. Oh and maybe Russia, China, Japan, Philippines, etc. Need to fill headlines with hot topics anyways.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As if anything will happen over this. They'll probably just exchange him or get him out via diplomacy.

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

Oh I'm with you, it's a filler story but nothing substantial.

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

We include stories for world politics in relation to US Politics such as that one.