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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 !buyeuropean@feddit.uk ? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/buyfromeu@feddit.org
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!buyeuropean@feddit.uk

  • 694 users / day
  • 2.19K users / week
  • 2.43K users / month

!buyfromeu@feddit.org

  • 175 users / day
  • 418 users / week
  • 986 users / month

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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[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They are not interconnected and you have to subscribe to all of them if you don’t want to miss anything.

Which is brought up repeatedly by people against the Fediverse and Lemmy for a reason not to come here. Having similar communities consolidated helps to defuse that.

This is not a case of !politics@hexbear.net vs !politics@lemmy.world. The two BuyEuropean communities look very similar, and the instances have similar moderation policies.

[–] Azzu@lemm.ee 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I mean, meh, reddit had duplicate subreddits a million times and still has. One eventually dominates, which will also probably happen here.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We don't have the user base that Reddit has.

There have been parallel communities existing without a clear winner for a very long time

Communities need to be actively consolidated for people to converge on one community. Examples of closed communities

[–] Sunshine@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The vegan one would be hard, there are like 15 of them!

I would suggest that !vegan@lemmy.vg be the default as it is ran and hosted by actually vegans though the instance version is at 0.19.5 with !vegan@slrpnk.net 0.19.9 a close second.

Everyone from Lemmy.ml, Hexbear.net and Lemmygrad.ml should consolidate into !vegan@vegantheoryclub.org 0.19.9.