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Hi, quick question about the website, which is evolving quite fabulous.

The page is operated and sponsored by a German company Hanseatic Bits UG (haftungsbeschrรคnkt) & 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.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

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?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Also. That wasn't the question at all ๐Ÿ˜‚

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I stumbled upon this paragraph reading their Terms and Conditions, so seems relevant to mention

  1. Affiliated Entities

While Go European's volunteers met through the Reddit community r/BuyFromEU, the two operate as separate and independent entities. Go European has no control over and accepts no responsibility for content posted on the r/BuyFromEU subreddit, and all such content remains the sole property of the users who posted it.

https://www.goeuropean.org/terms-conditions

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Yeah no, that's definitely the /r/buyfromEU subreddit in this case

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Could you please link the propper buyFromEU ? There are two different communities and feddit.org's is not associated with them.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Could you please link the propper buyFromEU ?

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/

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Answered below. I've mistaken the networks, thought you were referring to lemmy communities, but it was this legacy network indicated by an r/

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago