Hey fellas, with the tariffs in place, I suppose some few get ready to f*** up your supply chain on short notice

Hi 🙋,

you might be in search for an reddit alternative and don’t get the Lemmy thing, yet. Lemme help you out, shortly.

1. Lemmy lets you build communities just like you are used to.
2. You need an account to participate. I doesn’t matter on which server you register.
   1. https://lemmy.world/ → generic
   2. https://feddit.org/ → German/English community
   3. List of other servers
3. Lemmy servers (instances) host communities and can be interconnected.
   1. @[email protected] can follow local or remote communities
      • [[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
      • [[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
      • identified almost as easy as an e-Mail address.
4. Following a community is called subscribing, you’ll find a subscribe button when browsing communities.
5. Subscribing will keep you noted on new posts.
6. Mobile clients can make the experience more fluffy
   1. Voyager
   2. Arctic (iOS)
   3. List of other clients

Our community is called [email protected] but there are several other communities out there. Make sure to watch out for them, e.g. by browsing an instance's local communities.

Feel free to link this post, when onboarding people to this community.

The post is locked as remainder of the community is vocal about staying around.

Should we lock this stale community down?

//cc @[email protected] @[email protected]

Does anyhone know a good Garmin Instinct 2 Solar alternative?

I wanted to buy the now obsolete Instinct 2 due to its robustness and longevity, but recently learned that Garmin is american :-)

Does Suunto have any affordable Solar variants? Do you know other manufacturers?

In the last weeks several databases and websites emerged around the idea of buying European, or local.

Coming from different communities overviews of products and services can (for example) be found at the following websites:

• https://www.buy-european-made.eu/ : Community based database. Make your own suggestions!
• https://european-alternatives.eu/categories : First comer. Dev can be found on mastodon for suggestion.
• https://buy-european.net/categories : Community based database. Make your own suggestions! Devs can be found on mastodon and lemmy.
• https://github.com/uscneps/Awesome-European-Tech

If you are using Firefox or Chrome you can be nudged to do better by using the opensource Go-European-Plugin:

• Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/go-european/
• Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/go-european/klmgadmgadfhjgomffmpamppmkajdloc

(If you know any other starting points feel free to comment.)

An up-to-date list of recommended European projects and companies, curated by the community to support and strengthen the European tech ecosystem, specifically for users interested in privacy and sustainability.

Update 2025-03-05: Vote is in favor of keeping this community. This post is unpinned and locked.

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

• https://a.lemmy.world/lemmy.world/post/26235881
• https://a.lemmy.world/lemmy.world/post/26278581
• https://a.lemmy.world/lemmy.world/post/26152752

Moin, moin,

ich habe gerade die Moderation der Community [email protected] geerbt und wollte mich hier kurz abstimmen, ob etwas dagegen spricht, das von einer anderen Instanz (lemmy.world) aus zu machen.

Im Groben würde ich erstmal die User dort fragen wollen ob die Community weiter bestehen soll ( es gibt Konkurenzdruck von feddit.uk ), dann würde ich ein Team an Moderatoren suchen und vorläufige Regeln aufstellen.

Würd das so passen, oder gehe ich irgendwomit gegen die nettiquette des Servers?

Gruß

Hi, it seems like I just got designated additional moderator for this community. This happend without any further communication with mod or anyone, so I'm pretty suprised.

I need to sort out if this was by accident, how it came to be, and where to move from here on.

Come abroad this journey and stay tuned 😂

Hi guys,

let me be upfront and blunt, just so this issue gets addressed early on.

There are two communities on two differnt servers. feddit.org/c/BuyFromEU and feddit.uk/c/buyeuropean. They significantly differ in daily traffic/contributers and amount of moderators.

One user of feddit.uk is quite vocal about his community being the real deal and puts a lot of effort in onboarding redditors in his community.

Acknowledging the viewpoint and reason ( META Discussion ), I don't like how he is kind of overstepping placing his solution in any context, like it is the only real deal.

His arguments might be valid in some points, but the style is really poor.

Nonetheless, unmoderated communities without traction fade out by themselves and don't need artificial accelration.

To be honest it is upto @Soggy_[email protected] what to do with this community and to see if he wants to step up and put more moderators in place, or not.

I would prefer to have both communities to evolve in whatever directory they are heading, without interfering.

In the end informed people can subscribe to both and decide for themselves where they want to contribute.

Edit: one user, not moderator.