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YUROP

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A laid back community for good news, pictures and general discussions among people living in Europe.

Topics that should not be discussed here:

Other casual communities:

Language communities

Cities

Countries

founded 1 year ago
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[email protected], a community with a name more clear and using Piefed features (lemm.ee)
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[email protected]

When this community was started, the idea was to have a [email protected] version, but focused on Europe. Yurop was selected as a name to show that it was less serious, but it seems like it still gets associated with https://old.reddit.com/r/YUROP/ , which is more about making memes about the Europeans news than casual conversation.

I have recently opened [email protected] to solve this. Feel free to join us there, there is already some conversation going!

Where will content be posted now?

I will personally post content on the new community. Piefed has some nice features that can be used, so it's a good opportunity.

What will happen to [email protected]?

Not sure yet, but as the community wasn't that active, it will probably just become inactive. I could also lock it to push people to the new community, but that probably won't be necessary at first.

Feel free if you have any questions

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Let the complaining begin! I'll kick things off. To me "casual" is such an American word. It evokes images of a "dude" in "slacks" and ugly white New Balance "sneakers", "having a beer" (but only one). I'm pretty sure Brits - for whom joking is the whole purpose of life - use this word mostly ironically, or they certainly did when I was at school. The very idea of being "casual" is kind of comic in its self-regard, if you think about it.

Anyway, "Casual" it is. And who cares what Brits think, they left Europe after all, right? So maybe I'll come and have a (single) Bud Lite with the Euro-dudes at your new community soon. Have a nice day!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

[email protected] is the 5th most active community of that instance, so I'm not sure it's too ironic for them

Have a nice day too!

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

It's because everyone just copies the R-site and whatever else comes from across the pond. Like the obedient little supplicants of our cultural overlords that we all are!

But yes, fair enough.