For fucks sake, lately it seems /c/worldnews is just like /r/worldnews, every stupid insignificant thing that happens in the US gets a shitty post here. Could you think twice about posting anything US/Europe related thing? I’m not saying there shouldn’t be any news regarding these places but some times it’s really stupid.
Why should I care if republicans win over there? I dont fuckig care. Why should I give a flying fuck if Trump gets his fucking Twitter account back? I honestly couldn’t care less what fascist shit Usonian politicans post on that proprietary network. Why should I care that the UK pigs are one of the worst repressive organs in the world?
I could go on, the thing is that if you want to post shit about the US, do it in a community regarding the US, unless that news could be of interest to the rest of the world. For example if the US creates a new war or participates in a coup d’etat (and they do it pretty often), that could be of interest to the rest of the world, if not, post it somewhere else. Try to think it this way, would you care to know something similar to what you’re going to post if that would be happening in an African country? Or in a Latin American country? If the answer is no, then don’t do it.
Please let’s try and make Lemmy a place that’s not Reddit, we don’t need to be so Usocentric/Eurocentric, even if it’s hard.
Maybe what you want is a rule that at least two countries need to be involved so that it can be posted here? That should get rid of all the domestic “politics” theater from Usia.
I’d be open to that if there is enough interest. Currently trying to decide between this suggestion or making it a little more broad with @Cloak@lemmy.ml’s suggestion, my main issue with this one is that sometimes countries do things by themselves that affect the entire world. For example, things relating to environmentalism.
@gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml
You have my support.
I think no rule is going to prevent people from posting shit anyway, but I think that at least having something like a warning/recommendation that you should consider if the news in question at least has two countries involved would be a good idea. But as you say, it’s not a golden rule because a country can do something by its own that affects the rest.
Personally I think @Cloak@lemmy.ml suggestion is correct, because in trying to mitigate USA centric news problem, we should not want to get rid of all Anglophone news itself. That would become an echo chamber.
During events like USA elections, temporary strict rules can be used.
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I also thought about some kind of rule but couldn’t come with anything. And while I agree that this may seem reasonable most of the time I’m sure it will prevent actual world news from getting posted. Maybe it could work as a consideration?