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Join Us in Building Europe Pub: Community Builders and Moderators Wanted! (europe.pub)

submitted 1 month ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/europePub@europe.pub

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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! 🇪🇺

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[–] Kualdir@europe.pub 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's always too many dutch people volunteering for stuff like this. But I'm open to helping moderate the dutch side, although I'm not much of a community builder to be honest so won't be able to help that much on that side.

As a short introduction I'm 23, Software Test Automation Engineer with quite a bit of experience within a moderator teams (Hypixel, Cubecraft, MCCI) and also being a semi-lead on a forums moderation team for Hypixel having input on rules and moderation. Currently also a mod for !buyfromeu@feddit.org but I do not actively mod there, I'm just a part of decision making when action needs to be taken / rules need changing (head-mod there decided for it to be a democratic process + mostly hands off).

[–] Blaze@feddit.nl 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hello,

Currently also a mod for !buyfromeu@feddit.org but I do not actively mod there, I’m just a part of decision making when action needs to be taken / rules need changing (head-mod there decided for it to be a democratic process + mostly hands off).

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)?

[–] Kualdir@europe.pub 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Blaze@feddit.nl 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Every community has their own rules and moderation styles and people may not agree with 1 of them.

What are the differences in rules and moderation styles between !buyfromeu@feddit.org , !BuyFromEU@lemm.ee and !buyeuropean@feddit.uk ?

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)

!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

[–] Noerknhar@feddit.org 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Adding my 2 cents from a user perspective:

I have all 3 on my watchlist. Crossposts are shown to me 3 times. I don't comment, because the segregation does not help in getting a discussion going. You need to get information from all 3 in order to have the full picture. Or I mute 2 out of 3, and that kind of solves the problem in the long run. Are this point, people would decide for the biggest of the 3 anyways, right? Let's speed up the process.

I'm all in for merging the 3. Let's join forces rather than fight "centralisation".

[–] tfm@europe.pub 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks for the feedback. I've already commented on this matter: https://europe.pub/post/14163/38489

Basically, this should be solved at the platform level. I don't like the idea of consolidation since it leads to more centralization. The feed should bundle similar posts and comments from similar communities. That way we keep it decentralized and also the feed clean. :)

[–] Noerknhar@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago

The point I'm trying to make is: it will organically be centralised by users choosing to only actively use the biggest and most active community. By proactively merging, the process will only be sped up.