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Welcome to BuyFromEU - A community dedicated to supporting European-made goods and services! Whether you’re looking for locally produced fashion, technology, food or services, this is the place to share, discover and promote businesses that contribute to a stronger European market. Rules: 1. Stay on topic 2. No Self-Promotion or Spam 3. Be Respectful & Civil 4. No Counterfeit or Non-European Products 5. No Politics or Nationalism 6. No NSFW 7. Moderator Discretion Applies

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[Meta] Why this community when there is already [email protected] ? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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Having two similar communities on the same topic splits conversations, and give posters decision fatigue

Edit: some topics have consolidated their communities to avoid that, example from a few months ago: https://lemm.ee/post/46935805

Edit2: the UK community has a lot of different mod. The .org community only has one, who hasn't been active since 8 days.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Communities consolidation happen all the time too, to avoid conversation split and decision fatigue

Example from a few months ago: https://lemm.ee/post/46935805

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Example from a few months ago: https://lemm.ee/post/46935805

Wow, you're actually mentioned in that post...

to avoid conversation split and decision fatigue

Sure... And despite being a German instance, .org's posts are all in English... I don't know. I'm not against it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Feddit.org has German and English speaking communities - if you check out their instance, communities like [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected] are among the most active there.

That's not really the point though. It's a maybe bit ironic to have the dominant "buy European" community hosted at feddit.uk, but I'm all for it. Would love to see them join forces.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It’s a maybe bit ironic to have the dominant “buy European” community hosted at feddit.uk, but I’m all for it.

Most of the US communities ([email protected], [email protected]) are on LW, a European instance, so it wouldn't be the first time

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Don't get me started on the irony of those! :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Feddit.org has German and English speaking communities - if you check out their instance, communities like [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected] are among the most active there.

I meant the BuyFromEU community hosted on feddit.org, not .org as a whole...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Ah, yeah. I think they realized having all their communities in mixed languages would get messy.