TLDR: upvote if you want BuyFromEU to stick around.
Hi folks, new mod here.
There are two quite similar communities on different instances. Some users - coming from the different place - are in favor for abandoning this one, fearing a split and unecessary separation of users for an important movement. I’m not so sure if the other one is a substitute. Also - to be honest - I dislike the agressive, relentless style some users use in a -if you will- foreign community.
Procedure
- An upvote on this post means this you want this community to evolve. I would then proceed and search for more moderators and try to keep this a productive, interconnected space.
- A downvote means you are in favor of abandoning and settling with the other community.
You can use the comments on this post to express your feelings in a civil manner.
I’ll finally check back in about 48hours and take a look at where we are standing.
Edit:
Related posts for those who like digging in the past
Personally I’d be fine either way, but I can certainly see the arguments in favour of consolidation in this circumstance.
Perhaps BuyEuropean would be interested in onboarding the moderator of this instance?
@Sunshine@lemmy.ca (sorry, wrong alt)
I’m open to inviting them to the moderator team if they’re interested!
That could probably be possible, they are already 8 of them, they would probably be okay with one more.
@Lazycog@sopuli.xyz and @Sunshine@feddit.is, what do you think?
OP said in a comment that they are not eager to moderate, but personally I’ve got nothing against that.
Sunshine had a great idea that there should be more moderators to account for possibly many different languages spoken in !buyeuropean@feddit.uk and that’s why there are so many of us, to cover more languages.
While you are here, let’s ask the question from the other side. Should this community want to stay open, would you be okay to lock !buyeuropean@feddit.uk and redirect to this one?
@a887dcd7a@lemmy.world, would you consider adding the current mods of !buyeuropean@feddit.uk as mods of !buyfromeu@feddit.org ?
Well if you ask me alone, I would say I wouldn’t like to. I have an answer to the question “why” here: https://sopuli.xyz/comment/14953580
But that isn’t up to me - rather would have to ask Sunshine and the community there.
Well, seems like we are going to have a similar poll on the other side x)
Lemmy needs a poll-post implementation, like mastodon!
Hey, relax. You don’t need to disband your community either. It is not winner takes it all. It is just about these 1000 people in this community wantig to keep it alive or not.
Your community is unique as it is related to your website. Also crossposting should benefit both of the communities well enough. There is no need to vanish and/or merge at any cost.
Not sure what you mean by this, is the website https://buy-european.net/ ? But the community was created without any link to the website, @buyeuropean@feddit.org joined Lemmy yesterday.
Crossposting splinters discussion even further.
Those three discussion threads are happening in parallel, people replying in one won’t see the comments in the other except if they explicitly visit the crossposts.
Ah sorry don’t misunderstand me: I am fine with two communities co-existing and I also was eager to add buyfromeu to our sidebar if people want specifically EU centric community.
The biggest problem I personally had was that I couldn’t reach the mod of this community to discuss. But you have now taken over the moderation so that’s good!
I do generally agree with Blaze that lemmy has a bit of an issue with splintered communities while it is small still, but I’m also fine with this community staying and appreciate you volunteering to mod it and keep it active.
To further add to Lazycog’s point, we’re interested in having as much collaboration as possible to buy locally. We would like to streamline the experience of finding great alternatives.
Since this topic isn’t about me or me being a moderator, don’t invest into that perspective.
I’m not eager to moderate, but I see a potential for this community and even both communities to exist.
The outcome of this vote will dicdate further steps.
I’m personally fine with both co-existing as they could cover different goals.