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?
Problem is that these Americans talk. A lot.
The grim reaper in Monty Python wasn’t just whining. The struggle is real.
“World news” and no news about India and Pakistan’s latest shenanigans. lmao.
I think you can post whatever you want.
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.
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.
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Thats’s entirely a question of moderation. I do not.know how actively this community is moderated.
US is literally becoming a menace to the World.
Always has been
I second this, so much. Thank you. Inb4 “and my axe”.
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.
We should create a community named worldnewsnotusa.
I’m guessing the U.S. isn’t in the world?
For better or for worse, the US is part of the world. I had to unsubscribe from politics@lemmy.world because it was non-stop links about even the most trivial paid bits of outrage bait and campaigning, even though I was hoping to keep it to ensure I see perspectives from the US and articles about some of the important issues they have right now.
But I dont think excluding the US from the world, even just in name, is the best choice either. Partially because it encourages American isolation and exceptionalism, which helps nobody.
Ultimately I think this problem is best addressed by how platforms sort and filter content, but for now a new sub for international news articles that has to mention at least one location outside the US might be useful. Just to at least filter out the internal-only stories about MTG and Boebert clashing or the 15 articles about Mitch McConnell having a medical issue on camera. Maybe It could crosspost the top link each day from the major country and city instances/communities to keep it somewhat globally balanced.
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.
This is ultimately just pointless whining. Also, “the entire fediverse” is taken up by us politics? It’s barely a big deal on Lemmy.world as a whole.
Seeing US news just means there are more US posters. You need to increase participation from other people. It’s not stopping others from posting.
Want more non-US news? The answer isn’t less US news. That doesn’t make it magically have other content.
We get it, you have an axe to grind with US Americans thinking they’re the center of attention.
It’s not about having more similarly pointless content, it’s about having less of it. Well unless world news really means all kinds of news from everywhere, i.e. any little village anywhere. Dog got lost? World news. Corruption scandal in a town of 300? World news…
Pretending that US national politics doesn’t affect the world is deceptive at best, naive at worst.
I’m from Europe but also very interested in US politics. I still think that the bullshit that’s happening in Florida with DeSantis or PragerU, just as an example, is not world news worthy.
How DeSantis is polling for the Republican primaries is worthy to be posted in world news, I would say.
It’s a fine line, but the fact that there are other communities where the latter can be discussed in depth, makes it fair to require world news to not be muddied with internal US politics posts. Also for US citizens, to more easily find news pertaining to news outside the US.
That being said, I just browse through my feed without looking too much which community it was posted in, so it hasn’t bothered me personally.
I don’t disagree it would fit better elsewhere, which I’ve posted elsewhere, but you’ve made it clear you know the problem. A fine line is a fine line, and that’s what mods are for. People disagree over fine lines. That’s why the phrase exists. Complaining about it won’t fix it. This post is the equivalent of using a greataxe instead of a scalpel. The better solution is downvote, leave a comment, and maybe make a post and/or DM the mods about discussing the issue. I’m all for protesting and being loud about something, but you have to try the civil approach first.
