I’m going to double down on the politics and out myself as a pineapple and anchovies grifter—I don’t like either on pizza. Mwahaha

For sure. I saw someone commenting yesterday that Russia invading Poland's airspace was "a distraction from the Epstein files." Not everything that happens in the world revolves around America's shitty probably paedophile president!

Fair, there's a lot of stuff that should probably be posted in a "us politics" community instead of "politics," and some other stuff that should be posted in "politics" in addition to other-country-specific communities.

!world@quokk.au

There are rea$on$ 💲💰🤑🫰🪙

Which here on the Fediverse, actually seem to go beyond profit incentive. Morbid curiosity? An odd sense of journalistic integrity like if someone externally made a story about it then surely it must be worth sharing here?

Anyway, there's also tons of anime and people using Arch Linux btw here - just block what you don't like and subscribe more to what you do. Also if you want something, surely many others do as well so could be worth creating something new to meet that need.

I didn't comment on whether or not the prominence of US and international news and politics was good or bad, just explaining why it dominates.

Depends. I’m not American, most of the US politics don’t affect me.

Fair enough. But much of the world has a good knowledge of US politics even if they are not affected. Including me. And Americans are disproportionately overrepresented on social media sites like this.

Moreover, international news certainly can be commented on.

You feel tye same way about ukraine too. The world is the way it is jecause too many people ignore reality.