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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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[–] 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.