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Hello,
Example from a few months ago: https://lemm.ee/post/46935805
There have been parallel communities existing without a clear winner for a very long time
Communities need to be actively consolidated for people to converge on one community. Examples of closed communities
This is not a case of !politics@hexbear.net vs !politics@lemmy.world. The two BuyEuropean communities look very similar, and the instances have similar moderation policies.
Edit: another example from today: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/39000941?scrollToComments=true
I would say I completely agree. If we want to create critical mass and be a viable competition to Reddit and co community consolidation seems useful, I don't think we have the luxury of splintering.
For the buyFromEU/buyFromEurope thing, I would prefer if we consolidated into buyFromEurope as there's of course a few countries not in the EU like the UK, Norway, Ukraine, etc that we still want to buy from. I will generally prefer buying from the EU but i think the community should be Europe not eu focused.
Thank you for your comment