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Temporary rule added: no US politics (programming.dev)

submitted 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Until the rule is removed, any new posts about US politics will be removed.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 14 hours ago (5 children)

No, US exceptionalism is turning every single general purpose community into US politics.

For the 4% of Earth's population that does indeed live in the US, there could be local communities.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

It's still weird to me that there is no US instance. LW and lemm.ee are hosted in Europe, SJW and lemmy.ca in Canada, lemmy.ml and hexbear use a European datacenter.

I mean there is midwest.social and dubvee, but we could have expected a large US instance to have emerged by now.

The closest is probably https://lemmy.today/, but only has 194 users per month.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

It’s still weird to me that there is no US instance.

Damn good thing. We definitely don't want one hosted in a fascist country.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

Hey, we won't be fascist for at least another month or two!? 🗓️

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