this post was submitted on 26 Dec 2023
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Probably a good suggestion, though I do think it is weird that "news" should default to be US centric unless otherwise specified.
It was like that on reddit too.
Reddit was more directly a US centric site. Lemmy.world doesn't set out to be US centric but I'm sure the highest user base is people in the US.
You are right and I think it is very much fair to be from the US and them posting and engaging with content they care about. However, the instance is lemmy.world and they could have called the community USnews or something or just written in the sidebar that it is focused on the US. What I find annoying of it all is the american exceptionalism.
If many users are from the US, and many users post news that is relevant to them, then many posts, possibly most may posts will be US centric.
Pretty simple stuff
Thx for explaining. The issue was not that I thought it to be egotistical, but that I did not understand that there are indeed news in the US.