Buy European @feddit.uk Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.com 4d ago

Post promoting lemm.ee on /r/buyfromEU hits 1200 upvotes and 80k views in under an hour, gets removed for "excessive promotion"

To see it removed: https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1j7vkrg/the_european_hosted_reddit_alternative_lemmee_is/

To see the content: https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1j7vkrg/the_european_hosted_reddit_alternative_lemmee_is/

They also banned @AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee

Post on !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com : https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/39602921

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That was my post, I'm having a chat with the mods now, hoping they can reinstate the post. a warning would have been nice before removing the post and banning me, but let's see what comes of this.
- Trust me, nothing will come of this.
- Keep us posted!
  
  The mods haven't responded to me in 17 hours, they also seem to have a problem with this community:
  
  There is also beef between them and the other reddit r/Buy_European sub
  
  https://old.reddit.com/r/Buy_European/comments/1j6jeg3/the_other_buyeuropean_sub_is_apparently_now/
  
  Is the claim that a corporation runs this community to do self-promotion actually based on anything substantial or are they just being weird on Reddit?
  
  Seems to be a reddit mod moment. @buyeuropean@feddit.org is a mod of the community, but https://buy-european.net/ is a small side project. Ironically, the /r/buyfromEU mods seem to be involved about https://www.goeuropean.org/ , which is more bloated due to using Softr. They also have third-party cookies: https://www.goeuropean.org/cookie-policy
  
  Could maybe be the reason why they want to keep people using that last website, and prevent people hearing from https://buy-european.net/
  
  but didn't they yesterday say that !buyfromeu@feddit.org is run by a company? i'm not even mod there afaik. as the europeans-alternatives site is the only one serving ads and having affiliate links, i would assume it's more about them than it is about our ad-free site tbh. but they promote that commercial site explicitly. not sure why they seemingly hate us with a passion... damn it, forgot i didn't want to partake in drama anymore :D
  
  I don't know, the screen above seems to target !buyeuropean@feddit.uk 😄
  
  guess then i'm clueless what the reasoning behind it is. i will just ignore it from now on. really counterproductive pastime
  
  From what I can see, it's just a reddit mod moment.

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