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Community to discuss the usage of European products and services
This community is mostly focused about memes on that topic.
For product and services discussions, as well as news, see !buyeuropean@feddit.uk
Good resource: https://buy-european.net/
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And I'm just going to copy paste what I put in another posts about crossposts
My personal stance on this is that
If rules, moderation policies and admin policies are similar, there should only be one community on a single topic while we have a userbase below 100k
This allows for !politics@lemmy.world and !politics@hexbear.net to coexist, as there is a reason for them to (different moderation policies). It's similar for !climate@slrpnk.net and !climatehope@lemmy.world, as those communities have different principles and perspectives on their topic.
This suggests to consolidate communities like !movies@lemmy.world and !movies@lemm.ee
Another recent example is
These three communities have similar rules, similar moderation and admin policies. They should be consolidated. And I know this is a very controversial topic, but I made a longer post recently on !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com for people interested.
In summary, my main argument is that
To take a recent example
https://jlai.lu/post/16318139/13038429
There is a natural tendency of "one community emerges as the main one" on several topics
If one community does not emerge as the main one, it's usually because two or more regular posters maintain both communities active by posting to their preferred community.
So, my suggestions are to consolidate similar communities. This single decision will not make this platform similar to Reddit. On Reddit, you had no way to complain about power tripping mods, there were no public modlogs, and discourse criticizing the mods or the admins would get silenced.
Here, we have !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com, and recent examples have shown that the community can actually resist power tripping: https://feddit.org/post/7025680/4263481.
If the mods of the consolidated community start to power trip, document this on !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com and reorganize on the alternative communities. If not, stay on that one community, to foster more active conversations and posts.
That's the theory we encourage on !fedigrow@lemm.ee, feel free to join us there to discuss this further.
@Blaze The other issue I find is that some people have a different view about what buy European is. There are some that think its ok to have US shareholders, or parent companies based in the US as long as the brand is headquartered in the EU. There are others who think buyeuropean is about things sourced and manufactured here. It's a minefield
@Blaze I think one of the problems is that people have to register before they can view so have no idea what is on there. Then there are so many different options with it being decentralised that nobody actually knows what is really out there. It took me a while to find that there was a buyeuropean page that seems to be a sharing site. Then a day later I found another one. Everyone wants to do their share but the whole effort is done by individuals across the EU but with no coordination.