Basically because they don’t work. Many of the modern social media have great communities that often get eaten up by toxicity or aggressive moderation. Creating one more, won’t make it better. On top of that, I feel that information gets lost or is really difficult to find, once it is a few days old. Lastly, the tracking by the owners of social media was to me a turn off.
In the long run, maybe we can setup an online community like the old forums, but just more modern, or maybe even an official club with proper membership and organized activities across Europe!

First of all, this is not a hard rule. Anybody is welcome to join, as long as they respect that the main audience and target group are European goldfish keepers. I wanted to create a group for European goldfish keepers, because we face a series of very particular challenges, such as EU limitations when it comes to importing, medication rules, limited distribution network and specific market regulations. I also feel that fancy goldfish are really not as popular in Europe as it could be. I believe that we need to help each other, to strengthen the hobby of keeping fancy goldfish in Europe.

Personally I am not making this to make money. I am also really trying to not include any technology that will track users on the website. Your data is not for sale! That said, I wish that commercial partners will join in, and back the idea up, both financially and practically. I would love of retailers, breeders, manufacturers to share their updates and products here, as long as they are relevant to the European users.

Yes! actually, if you already have your own WordPress website, we can set your website up so that you can multipost the posts you want to share with EuroGoldfish. If you don’t have your own blog, you are welcome to use EuroGoldfish for it. We can create a landing page for your profile with all your posts. You are also welcome to create posts to simply share your videos, images, and product reviews that you have shared in other groups or pages.