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:
- Community builders to breathe life into our existing communities
- 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! 🇪🇺
Hello,
How do you feel about having 4 active communities on the same topic preventing all activity on that topic being visible in one space that can be linked to new joiners (e.g. people on /r/buyfromEU)?
Just to preface, this is my personal opinion and I am not speaking on behalf of the mod team of buyfromeu@feddit.org as we all have our unique opinion on it.
I think the whole point of the fediverse is that we don’t centralize anymore. People have the decision what community of BuyFromEU/BuyEuropean they want to join/participate in and cross-posting is a functionality. Every community has their own rules and moderation styles and people may not agree with 1 of them. The most preferred one will become the biggest/most active one and the others can always exist alongside and serve as a place to go if people feel the need to change.
Just to add on to this a little bit, I believe we should leave it to the community to naturally decide where they want to go and what should exist (something that shouldn’t or has no interest will die out by itself) instead of trying to encourage people to drop what they’re working on to lead people somewhere else.
What are the differences in rules and moderation styles between !buyfromeu@feddit.org , !BuyFromEU@lemm.ee and !buyeuropean@feddit.uk ?
!buyeuropean@feddit.uk weekly active users: 6500
!buyfromeu@feddit.org weekly active users: 1400
Where are the active alternative communities with similar rules to
Having one community allow people to search for recommendations in one place. Having three or four of them is not convenient in that regard.
People want the place with the most people to ask their questions. Having three or four communities gives them choice overload https://lawsofux.com/choice-overload/
You mention crossposts, but they don’t prevent all of the conversation to happen in one place, usually the larger community
I don’t specifically interact with the communities enough to give you an answer. But also, it may be similar now but rules and teams evolve.
I personally do not use the bottom 4 so wouldn’t know. But in terms of europe this is what I have on hand: !Europe@europe.pub !europe@lemmy.ml !europa@lemmy.world
You make points that are your personal opinion, if everybody shared that they’d only be using 1 of the communities and nobody would even want to make another one.
As I’ve stated, you should let the community naturally decide what gets to exist and stay alive and what doesn’t. You are not the main decider what should happen on Lemmy/the fediverse but you’re trying to have a lot of influence in shaping it. If something like this was “bad” the developers of Lemmy should make something for it, the way people use software is shaped by the features on it, not from someone telling people how they should use it. Instead of having discussions like this every time a new community pops up suggest a technical change that can improve Lemmy, that’s much more useful and time efficient.
Also just want to bring up, stuff like this also happens on reddit believe it or not. Belgium itself has multiple subreddits all just being “belgium” and a number or something, this specifically happened because people did not agree with the moderation of the others.
But honestly, I don’t really care about this “issue” enough to keep debating it. Here’s my simple opinion as I’ve stated twice already: Let the people choose, it will all evolve naturally and we’ll see what sticks over time. Having discussions like this is a waste of time and new people seeing this may even be turned off from using anything fediverse related as its already complicated enough compared to normal social media and this just shows how “unstable” it is compared to normal socials.