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The difference seems minimal. For instance, even on https://buy-european.net/category/email-providers, Proton, which is Swiss, is included.
Actually it's surprising to me @buyeuropean@feddit.org, does your listing allow include Switzerland, Norway and UK?
We are not "Buy EU", we are "Buy European". In the future we might differentiate between different "types" of European commitment (like EU manufacturing, European manufacturing, Outside Europe manufacturing) but right now we include all companies headquartered in Europe. Once we have a sophisticated database we can focus on the details and enriching said data.
That makes sense, thanks! Personally I agree with your approach.
I asked @a887dcd7a@lemmy.world in another comment how they were going to handle posts like this one, that link to your site (https://feddit.org/post/8682570).
It might become a valuable resource either by people manually deciding by the listed country if they want to use the company/product or once we implement labels that highlight EU based entities. So if it's okay for the post to stay in the EU based community, great. If not, understandable too.
That would be nice indeed
Yea. And I answered, that it is up to the new team of moderators. This isn't a one man-show, but the question if should set this up probably with a team of mods and some yet to be determined guidelines.
Right, it’s not a big difference, but it’s at least something. Both communities can coexist and if they have something that differentiates them, all the better. For some people, it doesn’t matter that much. For those people that do care about the distinction, they can focus on their preferred community instead. In the end (as other people said), it’s fine to join both of these, so I don’t think it matters a lot.