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.

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    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.

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      1 year ago

      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).