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No, it's about Americans always thinking they come first. I was told so many times that "rEdDiT Is aN AmErIcAn wEbSiTe"... But now, they can't pull that shit any more.
I say rename the communities.
In this case they did come first though! They registered the /c/politics community first.
But really they should change the display name to US Politics.
It doesn't matter. The name is misleading. It's a generic name and therefore should cover all politics. I've seen people claiming "ohh, but it's only US mods"... Yes. I run a whole instance. Americans are welcome there, too and I'm from Germany. So?
I wonder how hard it would be for Lemmy devs to put in an aliasing feature, say so when a user goes to c/politics, it'll automatically switch to c/uspolitics or something like that... That would make this easier.
Probably not hard. But that doesn't solve the problem that a generic term is used for something US only on a platform that isn't US first.
The point of suggesting this was to make the process of renaming the communities a little easier. Users do have to be led around by the nose, don't they?
If you're talking about me here, I understood why you were suggesting it. But to me, that's not the problem of c/politics in this case. They wouldn't want to rename, if it was possible, because "AmErIcA fIrSt".