[Vote] BuyFromEU or buyEuropean
[Vote] BuyFromEU or buyEuropean
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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There are quite a few examples of parallel communities existing on Lemmy:
- [email protected] and [email protected]
- [email protected] and [email protected]
- [email protected] and [email protected]
- the seven versions of privacy: https://feddit.uk/post/24876321
- there are countless other examples across Lemmy
Usually it's not that big of a deal, as most of the people seem happy to be on one or another, and maybe one day, over time, one will become "the one" over the other. However, in this case, due to the current circumstances, it seems valuable to consider consolidation. The support for European products and services on https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU is growing following the latest political events, and due to the momentum, it would make sense to have one community where all the activity would be centralized.
On top of that, decision fatigue and choice overload are a thing: https://lawsofux.com/choice-overload/
One of the main arguments people use to say that Lemmy will never be a real Reddit alternative is that discussions are splintered across several communities, and that there is no "main sub" for a given topic. Let's show them that this is not the case here.
Previous consolidations have happened before:
If we look at the metrics
- 1.56K users / day
- 3.13K users / week
- 3.29K users / month
- 83 posts
- 8 active mods, including the creator of https://buy-european.net/
- 384 users / day
- 758 users / week
- 1.44K users / month
- 40 Posts
- 1 active mod
Edit: a few examples were one community became "the one"
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] (sorry, wrong alt)
I'm open to inviting them to the moderator team if they're interested!
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?
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.
While you are here, let's ask the question from the other side. Should this community want to stay open, would you be okay to lock [email protected] and redirect to this one?
@[email protected], would you consider adding the current mods of [email protected] as mods of [email protected] ?
Well if you ask me alone, I would say I wouldn't like to. I have an answer to the question "why" here: https://sopuli.xyz/comment/14953580
But that isn't up to me - rather would have to ask Sunshine and the community there.
Well, seems like we are going to have a similar poll on the other side x)
Lemmy needs a poll-post implementation, like mastodon!
Hey, relax. You don't need to disband your community either. It is not winner takes it all. It is just about these 1000 people in this community wantig to keep it alive or not.
Your community is unique as it is related to your website. Also crossposting should benefit both of the communities well enough. There is no need to vanish and/or merge at any cost.
Your community is unique as it is related to your website.
Not sure what you mean by this, is the website https://buy-european.net/ ? But the community was created without any link to the website, @[email protected] joined Lemmy yesterday.
Also crossposting should benefit both of the communities well enough.
Crossposting splinters discussion even further.
- https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/39003373
- https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/39010052
- https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/39003310
Those three discussion threads are happening in parallel, people replying in one won't see the comments in the other except if they explicitly visit the crossposts.
Yea, [email protected] is perfect for redirections coming from http://buy-european.net People might engage dev there asking stuff about the page, or suggesting new features.
Maybe it is okay to have splintert discussions, as communities could have different viewpoints. This can be enriching.
Ah sorry don't misunderstand me: I am fine with two communities co-existing and I also was eager to add buyfromeu to our sidebar if people want specifically EU centric community.
The biggest problem I personally had was that I couldn't reach the mod of this community to discuss. But you have now taken over the moderation so that's good!
I do generally agree with Blaze that lemmy has a bit of an issue with splintered communities while it is small still, but I'm also fine with this community staying and appreciate you volunteering to mod it and keep it active.
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.
Since this topic isn't about me or me being a moderator, don't invest into that perspective.
I'm not eager to moderate, but I see a potential for this community and even both communities to exist.
The outcome of this vote will dicdate further steps.
I'm personally fine with both co-existing as they could cover different goals.