Hi, quick question about the website, which is evolving quite fabulous.
The page is operated and sponsored by a German company Hanseatic Bits UG (haftungsbeschränkt) & Co. KG .
I’m wondering: what the philosophy behind the project is? How is the funding taking place? What will happen to the crowd-sourced data and the joint effort? Don’t get me wrong, but putting effort in a closed source database that belongs to a company, which then claims the copyright of said database (German Urheberrecht), is something I would like to discuss upfront.
Ah. Also https://www.goeuropean.org/ makes a good job presenting their team. Is buy-european.net a one-man show and if the Truck factor (a regular term for dev gets hit by a truck) happens, everything will go to the bin?
As a general comment, go-european is managed by the mods of /r/buyfromEU, who
So they seem like they want to keep the control of the buyfromEU/buyeuropean movement
Also. That wasn’t the question at all 😂
I stumbled upon this paragraph reading their Terms and Conditions, so seems relevant to mention
https://www.goeuropean.org/terms-conditions
Ah. My bad. They are referring to r/BuyFromEU . Mistaken the network for lemmy, where we have two entities. None of them seems to be affiliated, feddit.org’s is for sure not.
Yeah no, that’s definitely the /r/buyfromEU subreddit in this case
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Could you please link the propper buyFromEU ? There are two different communities and feddit.org’s is not associated with them.
What you mean by that?
Usually when I post on Reddit I promote Lemmy as a whole, not a specific community: https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1j0xkqa/lemmy_as_an_alternative_to_reddit_using/
Answered below. I’ve mistaken the networks, thought you were referring to lemmy communities, but it was this legacy network indicated by an r/
Makes sense!