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.
Related to this, how about a rule that the name of the country needs to be included in the post title? There are some posts on the frontpage where you can only guess.
IMO a flag emoji would be better since it takes less space, but it would be a nice idea.
cc @AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml
I don’t really want to mandate emojis because if you’re on a computer, it’s surprisingly annoying to hunt them down and type them (I just search them up and copy paste, which isn’t ideal). They’re also hard to find using the search bar. So, how about ISO country codes? Like [US], [CN], [DE], etc (meaning Unites States, China, Germany respectively) at the start of the title?
You can also do something like [US+CN] or [US][CN] for news about international relations.
@gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml
Agree, also I think that having emojis in all the titles would be kind of ugly.
When I have time, I will summarize all the ideas in this thread, as well as my own, into a community post and host a vote to see if people want them made into rules.