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Why !politics and !news are US centric and then we have !worldnews for the rest of the world? Am I the only one finding this slightly arrogant? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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[–] 25 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

It’s because a lot of people migrating from Reddit landed on .world and created or found their familiar named communities and that’s how it was on Reddit - US centric top level type communities.

Is .world the best place for US centric communities? Maybe not just based on nomenclature but since you asked why, that’s the reasoning. It’s in the description of Politics specifically (it even calls out migrating Redditors).

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It's always a bit ironic to me that there is no feddit.us the same way there is feddit.de, uk, dk, it, etc.

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  • [–] 31 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It's because to Americans (including myself), .com is the US domain.

    There's google.com and google.de. There's amazon.com and amazon.co.uk, etc.

    .us is reserved for government's sites by social convention. Someone can have a private .us site, but it's a bit odd that they didn't just use the .com.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago*

    Agree, but where is the big US based feddit.com instance? The only one I can think of is reddthat.com, and I'm not even sure it's US based.

    LW is in Europe, SJW in Canada, Lemm.ee managed by an Estonian citizen, Sopuli by a Finn, Lemmy.ml in France

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