EuroGoldfish

About us…

For now, “us” means mostly a group of enthusiasts, who chat about goldfish on Discord. We hope that more of you will join the idea of creating an online European community for fancy goldfish keepers, who will promote the keeping of fancy goldfish in Europe, and the best way of taking care of them.

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A place for Fancy Goldfish owners in Europe!

Who is this for?

To start with, we want to create a place where people can share their passion. From there, we can go anywhere!

We hope that you will use this website to share your own passion for fancy goldfish. Whether it is by writing serious blog posts about goldfish, product reviews, creative ideas, or laid back updates about your day to day experiences with your fish. It really does not matter much. You could even just run a journal of your tanks, or maybe describe your routines. We love to read and watch anything about goldfish!

Whatever you choose to share, or from wherever in the worlds, just keep in mind that it is primarily targeted to a European audience.

  • Serious or funny blog posts about fancy goldfish
  • Your videos about goldfish
  • Photo-updates, or galleries of your fish and fish keeping
  • Distributor updates about new stock or new imports

FAQs

Why not just Facebook or WhatsApp?

Basically because they don’t work. Many of the modern social media have great communities that often get cluttered, eaten up by toxicity, or aggressive moderation. Creating one more, won’t make it better. On top of that, information often gets lost or is really difficult to find once it is a few days old. Lastly, the tracking by the owners of social media can be concerning for many of us.
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!

Why is this only for Europeans?

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

What are the commercial interests?

At the moment there are none. It is a subject that we will be discussing in the Discord group and decide on soon. Ideally we would have a free access Discord, and maybe open up the website for private users who either are active on the server or support it. Processional breeders, distributors and manufacturers are also welcome to contact us for access to the site.

Can I crosspost??

Yes! This is still in the works and being tested, but if you already have your own WordPress website, we should be able to 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, or we can help you set up a website of your own! 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.

Future Plans

  • Automatic post to fediverse
  • Discord update bot.
  • Automatic referral detection
  • Forum/Community/Club