Post promoting this community on /r/BuyfromEU
Our sister community on Lemmy have now reached over 3000 members and is becoming one of the most active communities on the site. Please feel free to join us.
Thank you @LinPing1976@lemm.ee
Trying my best.
Why does the mod claim !buyeuropean@feddit.uk is managed by a for-profit company?
The mods also complained about be posting about those posts here:
Those mods seems to be power tripping and want to only promote their website (https://www.goeuropean.org/), which they seem a bit adamant on promoting (https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1j85af8/a_comprehensive_guide_how_to_rbuyfromeu/), ignoring other alternatives like https://buy-european.net/
See some issue between them and the /r/Buy_European mod: https://old.reddit.com/r/Buy_European/comments/1j6jeg3/the_other_buyeuropean_sub_is_apparently_now/
The !buyeuropean@feddit.uk community only has @buyeuropean@feddit.org as a mod, but they are literally the last mod in the power order, they havent' created the community or anything.
There have been several occurrences of /r/BuyFromEU mods removing posts promoting Lemmy as they become too popular, such as this one: https://lemm.ee/post/57883093
Their sidebar still only shows links to their own social media:
Their website only points to Reddit: https://www.goeuropean.org/
https://buy-european.net/ points to Lemmy in the footer, and even created a dedicated blog post:
https://buy-european.net/post/lemmy-a-decentralized-community-for-the-buy-european-movement
Edit: for full transparency, I'm also investigating https://buy-european.net/pr/pr-01.pdf
On top of that, they also present feature https://european-alternatives.eu/ on their pinned post:
https://european-alternatives.eu/privacy-policy
Affiliate marketing
On the website are so-called affiliate links, which are marked as such. These links lead to external websites, which are not part of our service. If a product is subsequently purchased on the website, we receive a commission. Technically, no data is collected for this on the website european-alternatives.eu and no external codes are integrated on our website for affiliate marketing. However, the links to the external websites contain information (e.g. a parameter), which informs the external website that the user comes from us. It is possible that the external website sets a cookie to link this information to the behavior on the website.
I was wondering the same thing