Dear European enthusiasts,

We’re excited to grow Europe Pub and need your help to make it thrive! We’re looking for passionate individuals to join us as community builders and moderators.

What we need:

  1. Community builders to breathe life into our existing communities
  2. Moderators for country-specific communities who speak the native languages

Why native-speaking moderators are crucial: Europe’s beauty lies in its linguistic diversity. We want to replicate this diversity in our country-specific communities. Our goal is to ensure that every European can participate in discussions using their native language. This approach will make Europe Pub truly inclusive and representative of our continent’s rich tapestry of languages and cultures.

This is your chance to contribute to the fediverse movement and create a truly European social network. Let’s break free from centralized American social media and build something that represents our diverse continent.

Whether you’re passionate about European culture, politics, or simply want to connect with fellow Europeans, we’d love to have you on board. No technical expertise required – just enthusiasm, a love for Europe, and fluency in your native European language!

If you’re interested in helping shape Europe Pub, please comment below or send me a message.

Let’s work together to create a vibrant, inclusive space! 🇪🇺

  • Blaze@feddit.nlEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Firstly, !moviesandtv@lemm.ee still has 2,500 subscribers, while !showsandmovies@lemm.ee only has 1,500 at this point. Additionally, the moderators are now directing users to !television@lemm.ee, which has even fewer subscribers (around 200), as mentioned in this post.

    !showsandmovies@lemm.ee is by far the most active community on this topic: (https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=tv+shows&order=active)

    Subscribers are not a relevant metric as !moviesandtv@lemm.ee was created during the API exodus, but a lot of people left since then. Active users is a better metric.

    Rather than a clean transition, this situation has resulted in a fractured community.

    I know, I am that mod. This decision is actually a way to consolidate the existing communities on that topic

    So this is consolidation rather than fracturing. The first two communities have been locked. Should the mod team of !television@lemm.ee start to power trip, people can ask the lemm.ee admins to get one of the two others communities back and move there.

    Secondly, in this case, the issue was malicious moderation. Users left because of bad mod behavior, but the real concern remains: admins have the final say. If an admin decides to power trip, the entire community—and potentially the whole instance—falls under their control.

    !tenforward@lemmy.world was created as an alternative from power tripping admins on strartrek.website, and is now the most active community about Star Trek. So even power tripping admins can be dealt with. @Stamets@lemmy.world can attest.

    In contrast, a decentralized approach with similar communities on different instances offers a natural fail-safe. If one instance becomes problematic, users can easily regroup on other similar communities rather than having to start from scratch. This ensures continuity and resilience rather than the all-or-nothing risk of centralization.

    You can have alternative communities locked, so that they are ready to be used, but still keep the conversations happening on the main community.

    Whether or not this happens depends on developer support

    Indeed, but it is not implemented at the moment. Should the mods of /r/BuyfromEU ask us which Lemmy community we want to add to their sidebar, which one should give them? Should we give them the 4 of them just because we can’t decide on one?

    The question isn’t whether consolidation is the only way to improve discussion efficiency—it’s whether it’s the best way. And given the risks of power concentration, it seems clear that a better solution lies in improving the tools rather than weakening decentralization.

    Where are the alternative active communities to

    People don’t want to shout into the void. They go where the people are. Another example:

    This is a natural phenomenon. When Lemmy will have a bigger userbase (e.g. 100k monthly active users), we could maybe have parallel communities about specific topics, but at the moment, it seems counterproductive.