Impressive

Thank you for posting here!

On top of that, they also present feature https://european-alternatives.eu/ on their pinned post:

• https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1j85af8/a_comprehensive_guide_how_to_rbuyfromeu/

https://european-alternatives.eu/privacy-policy

Affiliate marketing

On the website are so-called affiliate links, which are marked as such. These links lead to external websites, which are not part of our service. If a product is subsequently purchased on the website, we receive a commission. Technically, no data is collected for this on the website european-alternatives.eu and no external codes are integrated on our website for affiliate marketing. However, the links to the external websites contain information (e.g. a parameter), which informs the external website that the user comes from us. It is possible that the external website sets a cookie to link this information to the behavior on the website.

https://lemmy.world/comment/15501652

The mods also complained about be posting about those posts here:

Those mods seems to be power tripping and want to only promote their website (https://www.goeuropean.org/), which they seem a bit adamant on promoting (https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1j85af8/a_comprehensive_guide_how_to_rbuyfromeu/), ignoring other alternatives like https://buy-european.net/

See some issue between them and the /r/Buy_European mod: https://old.reddit.com/r/Buy_European/comments/1j6jeg3/the_other_buyeuropean_sub_is_apparently_now/

The !buyeuropean@feddit.uk community only has @buyeuropean@feddit.org as a mod, but they are literally the last mod in the power order, they havent’ created the community or anything.

There have been several occurrences of /r/BuyFromEU mods removing posts promoting Lemmy as they become too popular, such as this one: https://lemm.ee/post/57883093

Their sidebar still only shows links to their own social media:

Their website only points to Reddit: https://www.goeuropean.org/

https://buy-european.net/ points to Lemmy in the footer, and even created a dedicated blog post:

https://buy-european.net/post/lemmy-a-decentralized-community-for-the-buy-european-movement

Edit: for full transparency, I’m also investigating https://buy-european.net/pr/pr-01.pdf

Also, feel free to comment under each of my posts to promote !asklemmy@lemmy.world or !asklemmy@lemmy.ml , I wouldn’t mind.

And definitely not ban people over it.

Coming back to

Are those others providing most of the content on one topic for the whole platform?

Are you a mod to “ask Lemmy”? No? This is why you created alternative community to it?

I’m not a mod on

• !buyeuropean@feddit.uk
• !lego@lemm.ee
• !map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz
• !photography@discuss.online
• !privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
• !linux@programming.dev
• !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

And a lot of other communities where I regularly post

Do you see me creating communities alternative to those?

It’s kind of ironic, because I can just use all the arguments people threw at me recently about !buyeuropean@feddit.uk and !buyfromeu@feddit.org

• it’s fine to have several communities on the same topic
• if you don’t like it, you can just ignore it
• the mod team decided to keep it open, so it’s their right

• !lego@lemm.ee
• !map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz
• !photography@discuss.online
• !privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
• !linux@programming.dev

And a lot of other communities where I regularly post

Thank you @LinPing1976@lemm.ee

TIL!

The “UK is not part of EU” is probably the last thing we need at the moment

I just posted about it: https://lemmy.world/post/26730824

Oh yes definitely!

Hello, FYI your comment is tagged in French, so some people might not see it.

!languagesettings@lemmy.zip has some guidance on how to update that

https://believeintherun.com/gps-run-tracking-privacy-policies/

Polar is based in the EU, which has the strictest privacy laws in the world under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). However, this only applies to data subjects within the EU, so if you’re using a device in the United States, you’re not covered by the GDPR (even if you’re a European citizen). The likely reason Joe Rogan received an updated notice agreement was because he was within the EU borders at the time. Companies based within the United States also must comply with GDPR data protection when gathering data from European data subjects.

Does Polar sell your data? No. According to Polar, “the data is used only to offer you the service in question, nothing else. Polar does not disclose, give or sell your data to anyone unless [they] are required to do so pursuant to a mandatory provision of law. [They] may use some of the data in research and development work to improve [their] services, but for such purposes data is cleared from identifiers to the maximum amount possible.”

According to their policy, data is transferred outside your country of origin because they need the data to give you accurate training metrics and recommendations. All their servers are based in Finland, Ireland, and Sweden, so your information only goes to those servers, all under the EU/EEA umbrella. When transferred, “Your data will not be disclosed or given to any third parties; it is still under Polar’s control and under your ownership.

Now, data may be transferred to Polar’s subcontractors that carry out tasks related to Polar, though it doesn’t say who those contractors are or where they are located.

The good news is that you have a lot of rights under their policy, including access to the personal information they have on you, the right to object to the handling of personal data, and the right to refuse profiling and automated decision-making. There are far more rights granted by Polar than other companies.