Whether you’re a Reddit refugee or just curious about a better, community-driven social network, Europe Pub is the place to connect, share, and support local economies!

What is Europe Pub?

Europe Pub is a European social network built on Lemmy, a federated social network platform. Think of it like Reddit, but with a crucial difference:

Why Europe Pub?

  • 🔏 Privacy-Friendly: Your data stays protected—we prioritize user privacy.
  • 🇪🇺 Hosted in Europe: All data is stored on European servers operated by European companies.
  • 🫂 Community-First: Built by Europeans, for Europeans.
  • 🔗 Open & Connected: Seamlessly interact with communities across the entire Fediverse.
  • 🛡️ Transparent & Open-Source: No hidden algorithms or corporate control—everything runs on open-source software.

How to Get Started (Easy Mode!)

  1. Choose your experience:

  2. Create an Account:

    • Tap the Sign Up button.
    • (If you use a third party client use “europe.pub” as server)
    • Pick a username, password, and you’re in!

  3. Join a few Community:

    • Go to the communities list and join a few communities in which you’re interested.
    • Hit “Subscribe” and start sharing/commenting!

Looking for more?

  1. Use the Lemmy Explorer to find communities:

    • Visit Lemmyverse.net.
    • Search for a topic or interest (just like searching for a subreddit).

  2. Subscribe to a Community:

    • Copy the full community name (e.g., !europeanfederalists@lemmy.world).
    • Paste it into the search bar on Europe Pub or the Voyager app.
    • Hit Subscribe and start engaging!

💡 If a community looks empty at first, don’t worry! It will load posts after you subscribe. Newly discovered communities take a few minutes to sync—just subscribe and check back!

✅ Subscribe to multiple communities to make the Fediverse stronger, more resilient, and censorship-resistant!

🔎 Looking for something specific? Let us know—we’ll help you find the right community!

Missing a community? Start your own!

It’s easy, and you’ll be shaping the future of Europe Pub and the Fediverse. We’re just getting started! Create new communities for your interests:

  • 🧳 Travel tips across Europe?
  • 🇪🇺 EU policy debates?
  • 🍲 Local food or tech innovations?

Be a pioneer! The more communities, the richer the experience.

Want to help us?

Do you want to make Europe strong together? We’re looking for passionate moderators to help ensure our communities are positive, welcoming spaces. If you’re interested in playing a key role in shaping Europe Pub, join us in this endeavor!

Let’s build a stronger Europe, one post at a time.

Questions? Ask below! 👇

    • tfmOPMAEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Same goals, different instances, mods, and admins.

      This project aims to further strengthen the decentralization of the Fediverse.

      I recommend subscribing to all BuyFromEU communities. This helps distribute power more evenly among moderators and administrators, reducing the risk of a few individuals having too much control. It also provides resilience against sudden outages, like what happened with feddit.de, ensuring continued accessibility and stability.

        • tfmOPMAEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          Only if you also access it from lemmy.world or another instance that already cached it. Here on europe.pub for example, it’s not accessible since it started after the server went down. Also different instances won’t sync anymore.

          • Blaze@feddit.nlEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            But that is also true whatever the number of parallel communities you have, if the instance shuts down, the hosted community will be in the same situation.

            • tfmOPMAEnglish
              1·
              2 months ago

              That’s why I propose to subscribe to similar communities on multiple instances. That makes the community as a whole more resilient.

  • borisentiu@feddit.orgEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    An instance for all the country-themed communities right next to europe-themed is a nice vision. The former will probably grow slowly, but that’s ok and you can make sure that the foundation with multiple admins, backups etc is resilient - like feddit.org after the drama with feddit.de.
    Feddit.org only allows German&English language in order to keep it moderateable. If your country communities allow the respective languages (besides English for adressing interested ‘outsiders’) that’s also a great vision, but I think you would better have native (or non-native) speakers as mods first.

    Good luck!

    [Edit: I meant competent speakers - they don’t have to be native]

    • tfmOPMAEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Thanks! We appreciate all feedback. Given everything happening in the U.S., it’s more important than ever to strengthen the fediverse. That’s why we started this instance.

      We definitely need more admins and moderators, but for now, things are still in the early stages and quite manageable.

      If your country communities allow the respective languages (besides English for addressing interested ‘outsiders’)…

      That’s our long-term vision! But as you mentioned, we’ll need native-speaking moderators to make that possible.

      If you’re interested in helping, feel free to reach out. :)

  • Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    Hello,

    Interesting initiative. Can you maybe tell a bit more about the admins:

    • there are two accounts, are those two different people or the same person using an alt?
    • how do you manage backups of the instance?
    • is that instance enrolled on https://lemmy-federate.com/ ?
    • tfmOPMAEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      there are two accounts, are those two different people or the same person using an alt?

      That’s a colleague. We are from Austria. :)

      how do you manage backups of the instance?

      Managed by Hetzner. The whole server is backed up.

      is that instance enrolled on https://lemmy-federate.com/ ?

      Haven’t heard of it yet. Will check it out!

    • Blaze@feddit.nlEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Doesn’t seem enrolled as I had to manually fetch the comment above

      • tfmOPMAEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        Have submitted it :)

          • tfmOPMAEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            Yes! Indeed I’m even actively searching for mods for the different communities. Building up the server is quite some work, that’s why I haven’t had time to search for them yet. But I’ll definitely reach out to them. Thanks for the advice.

            • Blaze@feddit.nlEnglish
              1·
              2 months ago

              Sounds good, thanks. There is a Matrix link on the pinned post of that community, that’s probably the easiest way to reach out to them