• poVoq@slrpnk.netMEnglish
    239·
    6 months ago

    This English speaking “europe@feddit.de” was always a bit out of place on a primarily German speaking instance. The same would be true for feddit.org, I guess. Maybe we should just depreciate this community and see if another English speaking Europe community takes over? As long as it isn’t the one on lemmy.ml (which has major moderation issues), I think I would be fine with that. I only stepped up moderating it on feddit.de because it was very active at the time and the previous mod stepped down.

    • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
      17·
      6 months ago

      I specifically voted for feddit.org with this community in mind during the name poll, because it was more international sounding than the other options.

      • poVoq@slrpnk.netMEnglish
        15·
        6 months ago

        If someone wants to create an English speaking Europe community on feddit.org I would certainly not be against it. Ultimatly it is up to the subscribers to decide where to go.

        I pinned this thread in the community, so people can promote their proposed alternatives here.

        • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
          2·
          6 months ago

          So from that I gather that you personally do not have an interest in moving the community over to it.

          • poVoq@slrpnk.netMEnglish
            6·
            6 months ago

            I would much rather someone else takes over moderation, yes. Both because of various federated moderation bugs in Lemmy making it hard to moderate a community that isn’t on your home instance and because I have way to many communities that I moderate already.

            If needed, I would be willing to help with moderation, but not be the main moderator of such a new community.

            • Servais@dormi.zoneOPEnglish
              1·
              6 months ago

              To be honest, I didn’t volunteer because it’s a news community with a large audience. Debates can get nasty, and that’s something I try to avoid.

              I guess a lot of other people are in the same case, and why you were the only mod here

              • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
                1·
                6 months ago

                /r/europe became pretty much a Nazi cesspool and I feel on the fediverse it could quickly become a Tankie cesspool. I personally would not have nerves for that either. Would be sad to see this community die if the instance inevitably vanishes though.

    • CAVOK@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      6 months ago

      This community is the biggest one by far. Shutting this would be bad IMHO. Is there a way to move it to another instance?

      • Servais@dormi.zoneOPEnglish
        82·
        6 months ago

        I agree. This one is definitely the most active one.

        @poVoq@slrpnk.net, maybe lemm.ee can be an option? The .ee domain name suggests its’ European, and all of the communities are English-speaking.

        • Servais@dormi.zoneOPEnglish
          5·
          6 months ago

          You can pin a message to a new one, and lock the old one down, that works for most of the people

          • Parodper@foros.fediverso.galEnglish
            7·
            6 months ago

            In that case mods should do that ASAP, to give enough time to people to notice it before the server shuts down.

            Also should probably create the new community, lemm.ee doesn’t seem to have one already.

              • Servais@dormi.zoneOPEnglish
                5·
                6 months ago

                Even if the server keeps running, not being able to access the frontend is a bit worrying

                • poVoq@slrpnk.netMEnglish
                  3·
                  6 months ago

                  The community on lemmy.ml has the problem that there are some very persistent users that constantly post pro-Russian propaganda or similar mis-information to it, and the lemmy.ml admins refuse to appoint a new mod and seem to be generally fine with that. I certainly wouldn’t want to moderate a similar community where Hexbear and Lemmygrad users have full access to like they would on lemm.ee. if fact I wouldn’t even be able to as my home instance is defederated from these instances and thus such posts would be invisible to me.

    • Ben MatthewsEnglish
      7·
      6 months ago

      Is this intentionally english speaking, or does this just reflect the population of lemmy ?
      I’d prefer a multilingual europe instance, ou chacun parle sa langue, para aumentar la diversidad.

      • poVoq@slrpnk.netMEnglish
        6·
        6 months ago

        I didn’t create this community, but there is another German speaking “europa” community on feddit.de and this one was as far as I know always near 100% English.

      • Pleb@feddit.deEnglish
        19·
        6 months ago

        There’s two actually. The second one hopped on board shortly before the first one went to Asia on some work (IIRC).
        And the second one has trouble with the SSH-key and a case of RL-stuff going on.

  • passepartout@feddit.deEnglish
    5·
    6 months ago

    The size of this community alone shows the need for it. That said, feddit.org seems like a good new home for it since .org is a language neutral tld and the server is german AND English speaking after all.

  • petrescatraian@libranet.de
    5·
    6 months ago

    It would actually be kinda cool to have something like a feddit.eu server where communities from all across Europe/the EU can reside. But I am not against a move to .org either, except for the fact that they label themselves an English-German speaking community. I am not German. 😁