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Find European Products, Companies and Alternatives to Non-European Counterparts
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Well, like any other rules. The community helps a lot with this.
Most of the time it's clear and OP doesn't hide the fact - in those cases we hope OP checks the rules before posting and then decides not to.
But, let's say some popular post gets a lot of comments, one of the comments is just two lines of harmless AI text so no one pays attention or knows it's genAI and therefore no one reports it: we wont notice and the comment that technically breaks the rules is staying. The commenter has either not read the rules or, if they have, is celebrating their victory at home for passing the great mod filter wall.
Mods are just normal users part of this community and volunteered to moderate this community when they can. Mostly we have been acting on reports by other users of this community and we filter out troll posts and comments that are just e.g. racist, transphobic, etc.
We don't have some fine modding tools that parse every post and comment, if no one notices / reports rule breaking content then it won't be acted upon.
Happy to hear! And I have similar experiences. Digital clean-up was the most visible part of my journey to go european.
Also you are right: this community has really helped me too. It's also awesome to have a community where everyone shares the same struggles as well and I love personal posts here that ask or tell about their experiences, recent finds, and so on!
Same, I was surprisingly buying more local than I thought. But yeah also feel like I'm checking every label now.
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Announcing a new rule: "no generative AI content"
A while ago we had a post with a comic that was a bit controversial due to it being generated by genAI, but we did not explicitly have a rule against it.
We wanted to discuss this and ask the community, but this apparently had already been a topic on feddit.uk for awhile and they have made a instance rule about it (announced in this post).
Since buyeuropean community is on feddit.uk, the feddit.uk rules apply to this community and therefore I wanted to announce this new rule so it doesn't come as a surprise.
Copy of the post body text from the announcement of this rule on feddit.uk:
So no:
- AI generated memes of images
- AI generated answers to questions
edit: this applies to feddit.uk communities, we won’t block AI art communities on other instances or sanction our users for posting on them.
Me too! And honestly it has raised my awareness on where the stuff I buy is from. Sometimes it's unbelievable: Paprika all they way from California, US next to local paprika.
Weekly thread Featured
Did you notice a change in your shopping habits recently?
In the context of this community.
Pinging @buyeuropean@feddit.org who I bet would appreciate your positive feedback of the website! :)
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Buy-European.net - European database for products, services, brands and companies
(Reposting @buyeuropean@feddit.org's post to federate sticky post and adding a bit of new info. Here you can find the original post.
Additionally: A link to a post where the dev answers questions about buy-european.net's philosophy and reasoning around their decisions.
We worked the last months on a new completely ad-free database for European products, brands, services and companies. A few days ago we released the site. The website focuses on usability with a simple search form and a clear structure. After the technical development we are now in the process of filling the database with content. The website is currently available in English and German!
You can also submit your own suggestions for European products, Non-European products that you try to find alternatives to, and categories that may be missing.
If you have any feedback, we would appreciate it. If you like