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.
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.