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[Vote] BuyFromEU or buyEuropean (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Update 2025-03-05: Vote is in favor of keeping this community. This post is unpinned and locked.

TLDR: upvote if you want BuyFromEU to stick around.

Hi folks, new mod here.

There are two quite similar communities on different instances. Some users - coming from the different place - are in favor for abandoning this one, fearing a split and unecessary separation of users for an important movement. I'm not so sure if the other one is a substitute. Also - to be honest - I dislike the agressive, relentless style some users use in a -if you will- foreign community.

Procedure

An upvote on this post means this you want this community to evolve. I would then proceed and search for more moderators and try to keep this a productive, interconnected space.
A downvote means you are in favor of abandoning and settling with the other community.

You can use the comments on this post to express your feelings in a civil manner.

I'll finally check back in about 48hours and take a look at where we are standing.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (23 children)

Personally I'd be fine either way, but I can certainly see the arguments in favour of consolidation in this circumstance.
Perhaps BuyEuropean would be interested in onboarding the moderator of this instance?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (20 children)

That could probably be possible, they are already 8 of them, they would probably be okay with one more.

@[email protected] and @[email protected], what do you think?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (17 children)

OP said in a comment that they are not eager to moderate, but personally I've got nothing against that.

Sunshine had a great idea that there should be more moderators to account for possibly many different languages spoken in [email protected] and that's why there are so many of us, to cover more languages.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

To further add to Lazycog's point, we're interested in having as much collaboration as possible to buy locally. We would like to streamline the experience of finding great alternatives.

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