Update 2025-03-05: Vote is in favor of keeping this community. This post is unpinned and locked.
TLDR: upvote if you want BuyFromEU to stick around.
Hi folks, new mod here.
There are two quite similar communities on different instances. Some users - coming from the different place - are in favor for abandoning this one, fearing a split and unecessary separation of users for an important movement. I’m not so sure if the other one is a substitute. Also - to be honest - I dislike the agressive, relentless style some users use in a -if you will- foreign community.
Procedure
- An upvote on this post means this you want this community to evolve. I would then proceed and search for more moderators and try to keep this a productive, interconnected space.
- A downvote means you are in favor of abandoning and settling with the other community.
You can use the comments on this post to express your feelings in a civil manner.
I’ll finally check back in about 48hours and take a look at where we are standing.
Edit:
Related posts for those who like digging in the past
encourage people to help solve one of the issues that is keeping Lemmy from being an even more awesome alternative to Reddit:
https://popcar.bearblog.dev/lemmy-needs-to-fix-its-community-separation-problem/Interesting article, first time I see it
Who should encourage whom?
Also, something else that crossed my mind, @a887dcd7a@lemmy.world: some instances like https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/ or https://reddthat.com/ disable downvotes, so they wouldn’t be able to vote using your procedure.
@FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone for instance voted to move to the feddit.uk instance, but is unable to register their vote
I‘m sorry to hear that. Upvote/downvote was the most democratic and representative way I could think of with feddit.org capabilities.
Please recognize that I cannot think of all hurdles when different instances with different possibilities are involved.
Keep both? Whats the point of having instances if we’re going to centralize communities anyways.
Instances are used for differences between communities like !politics@lemmy.world and !politics@hexbear.net
!europe@feddit.org is the centralized go-to community for news about Europe, it doesn’t seem to be an issue
I don’t mind either way. If we keep it separated there will be the split of community that you mentioned. But if we merge it there will be endless discussions about “what is the actual goal? Propagating EU products? Propagating European products? Propagating non-USA products?”. By keeping two separate communities, each can focus on something else. And they can also reference each other (“this community is for <X> if you want to recommend <Y> you can do it in the other community”)
each can focus on something else
The difference seems minimal. For instance, even on https://buy-european.net/category/email-providers, Proton, which is Swiss, is included.
Actually it’s surprising to me @buyeuropean@feddit.org, does your listing allow include Switzerland, Norway and UK?
I don’t understand your problem. Why don’t you keep both communities alive? It’s probably even interesting in the long term for each country to set up its own community to buy locally. If it’s really interesting, then make a crosspost in God’s name. This isn’t Reddit, where everything revolves around karma or user numbers. Free yourself from these standards. No user will be bothered if they subscribe to both communities.
Hi, I’m the wrong person to ask. I got MOD by accident and am willing to give this community a new spin. There are some few people who are against two communities. But to be clear, I’m in favor for this community to stay and am on your page.
There is no such thing as an official community for this movement, if you want to call it that way.
I don’t think you got MOD by accident! The original MOD deleted their account and you posted quite regularly… so it seems to me.
I also DMed him if he needs help organizing stuff. I expected a lovely message with hearts and roses ❤️🌹, instead I got MOD…
Well, that was a fast track promotion 😄
