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What's wrong about it though? The freedom lies in the ability to create your own community that is not regulated by one company/organisation owning the platform. You can go to the place where you agree with the rules and you don't have to live under the rules of someone you don't like.
They’re just butthurt that they’re not being allowed to spew their hot takes all over this community as a captive audience that isn’t interested.
Nobody was doing that here, though. Have you even seen this community? It's super inactive to begin with.
What's wrong is fracturing. Lemmy is not so massive that it can sustain niche communities for every little topic.
I wouldn't consider US politics a small topic, especially on Lemmy
It's not a small topic, it's a small community to set up all these tiny communities.
Community is what we called subs on the other site.
How are political communities tiny when they are 2 of the 6 most active communities on Lemmy?
To be honest, the issue is mostly about !politics@lemmy.world banning self posts (and thus people having to find alternatives such as !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world ) rather than the mods of !asklemmy@lemmy.world
Seriously? Political questions, political related questions, and international political related questions.
The one you listed is for essentially for posting articles.
Why the distinction? Movies communities both post about articles about movies and have discussion posts too.
But anyway, I created those 3 posts on !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world, feel free to create others there too