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Buy From EU

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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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At least the !BuyFromEU@europe.pub admin said they would contact the mods of !buyeuropean@feddit.uk, hopefully some consolidation can happen: https://europe.pub/post/514

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[–] cheprofumo@feddit.it 2 points 5 hours ago

As someone who’s new to the Fediverse, I did find it confusing that there was more than one with the same name. I ended up clicking each to notice there was a difference between them (i.e. one seemed like just memes).

If they can be combined and filtered for people who only want one and it can get a larger audience, great. Otherwise, maybe unique names would be helpful, like “BuyFromEU-memes”

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 1 points 5 hours ago

Nah, I like this stuff distributed

[–] Blaze 8 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

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

  • even though subscribers can potentially subscribe to all communities on a topic
  • posters are only going to post to one community, because they want the conversation to happen with the most people in one place, which is not the case if you crosspost as the comments gets splintered across the different communities

To take a recent example

As a member of both communities, I find it a pain to have two similar communities even more so when both post the exact same content because it creates more noise in my feed and because it forces me to waste my time and energy deciding where I will read said duplicated content and maybe post a comment. The solution is obvious: I will unsubscribe from one (for the time being, I still follow the two communities).

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.

[–] BuyEU@mastodon.social 1 points 3 hours ago

@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

[–] BuyEU@mastodon.social 1 points 3 hours ago

@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.

[–] MemmingenFan923@feddit.org 2 points 9 hours ago

Actually i think it is good to have the same topic on many different servers. If a server is suddenly shut down or decide not to federate with other servers the redundant communities may act as a backup.

However I am relatively new into the fediverse and I am not sure if my thought is correct.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 2 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I'm ok with it but if we could just get an English filter so I don't need to manually block the million new foreign language subs poping up every minute that would be great.

[–] Blaze 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

You need to ask mods of the new communities to configure them to only allow their target language.

Most of the communities on jlai.lu only allow French.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Most of them are set up with a language tag so I don't see why we can't just filter them out.

in the meantime I just block to keep the front page comprehensible.

[–] Blaze 1 points 11 hours ago