▲ 142 ▼ 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 filister@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world 54 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] MrMusAddict@lemmy.world 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 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 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MrMusAddict@lemmy.world 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 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 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 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 permalink fedilink source parent