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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Why does the mod claim [email protected] is managed by a for-profit company?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

The mods also complained about be posting about those posts here:

Those mods seems to be power tripping and want to only promote their website (https://www.goeuropean.org/), which they seem a bit adamant on promoting (https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1j85af8/a_comprehensive_guide_how_to_rbuyfromeu/), ignoring other alternatives like https://buy-european.net/

See some issue between them and the /r/Buy_European mod: https://old.reddit.com/r/Buy_European/comments/1j6jeg3/the_other_buyeuropean_sub_is_apparently_now/

The [email protected] community only has @[email protected] as a mod, but they are literally the last mod in the power order, they havent' created the community or anything.

There have been several occurrences of /r/BuyFromEU mods removing posts promoting Lemmy as they become too popular, such as this one: https://lemm.ee/post/57883093

Their sidebar still only shows links to their own social media:

Their website only points to Reddit: https://www.goeuropean.org/

https://buy-european.net/ points to Lemmy in the footer, and even created a dedicated blog post:

https://buy-european.net/post/lemmy-a-decentralized-community-for-the-buy-european-movement

Edit: for full transparency, I'm also investigating https://buy-european.net/pr/pr-01.pdf

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

investigating the press release? :D what do you mean? questions? Edit: Oh, I guess that was prior to the discussion yesterday, right? So I guess that's "investigated". Hadn't checked Feddit in a while.

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

So to summarize its basically 1 website vs the other? We should unite, not divide

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Yes, indeed. There's a similar situation here with [email protected] and [email protected], so it's just common around this type of initiatives

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

On top of that, they also present feature https://european-alternatives.eu/ on their pinned post:

https://european-alternatives.eu/privacy-policy

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I was wondering the same thing