BuyFromEU

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Welcome to BuyFromEU - A community dedicated to supporting European-made goods and services!

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Lemmy at a glance (feddit.org)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by a887dcd7a@feddit.org to c/buyfromeu@feddit.org
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Hi 🙋,

you might be in search for an reddit alternative and don’t get the Lemmy thing, yet. Lemme help you out, shortly.

  1. Lemmy lets you build communities just like you are used to.
  2. You need an account to participate. I doesn’t matter on which server you register.
    1. https://feddit.org/ → German/English community
    2. https://feddit.uk/ → UK centric
    3. List of other servers
  3. Lemmy servers (instances) host communities and can be interconnected.
    1. @user@example.com can follow local or remote communities
      • [!community1@example.com](/c/community1@example.com)
      • [!community2@niceplace.com](/c/community2@niceplace.com)
      • identified almost as easy as an e-Mail address.
  4. Following a community is called subscribing, you’ll find a subscribe button when browsing communities.
  5. Subscribing will keep you noted on new posts.
  6. Mobile clients can make the experience more fluffy
    1. Voyager
    2. Arctic (iOS)
    3. List of other clients

Our community is called !BuyFromEU@feddit.org but there are several likeminded communities out there. Make sure to watch out for them, e.g. by browsing an instance's local communities. Also if you want to stick around we posted about What to expect (from this community) and Where to start (buying european).

Feel free to link this post, when onboarding people to this community.

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Where to start? (feddit.org)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by a887dcd7a@feddit.org to c/buyfromeu@feddit.org
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(Repost with author change)

In the last weeks several databases and websites emerged around the idea of buying European, or local.

Coming from different communities overviews of products and services can (for example) be found at the following websites:

If you are using Firefox or Chrome you can be nudged to do better by using the opensource Go-European-Plugin:

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Debit/Credit Card Alternatives? (feddit.org)
submitted 6 hours ago by lIllIllIllIllIllIll@feddit.org to c/buyfromeu@feddit.org
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AFAIK, currently all debit cards are US-based. Mastercard - US based, VISA - US based. We used to have girocard in Germany, but it's being phased out by most banks in favor of one of the US solutions. There used to be the EC system but as I understand it, it's gone for a while now.

Do we currently have any card-based European payment solutions? How much money do we actually give to the US just for the luxury of being able to pay by card?

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Invest into Europe stocks (feddit.org)
submitted 23 hours ago by Waldemar@feddit.org to c/buyfromeu@feddit.org
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I withdraw all my money out of USA stock market and invested in Eurostoxx 600. Half a million Dollars out of this yet unpredictable mess. No Warren, this time i will bet against USA, there is plenty of alternatives in Europe. Who will follow my way and post his effort made ? Please.

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Leaving LinkedIn was easy, because it doesn't seem to be useful in my country (AT) + premium is too expensive IMO (feddit.org)
submitted 1 day ago by chmod755@feddit.org to c/buyfromeu@feddit.org
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Screenshot of the "Sorry to see you go" e-mail from LinkedIn in German

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Canadians, Mexicans and Europeans can make a massive impact to America's tourism industry if we all collectively decide to stop visiting (lemmy.ca)
submitted 2 days ago by chmod755@feddit.org to c/buyfromeu@feddit.org
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/41271371

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Finally, a Linux laptop with a brilliant display and performance that rivals my MacBook (from Germany) (www.zdnet.com)
submitted 2 days ago by SrMono@feddit.org to c/buyfromeu@feddit.org
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cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/53784

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Alternative to Converse shoes (palladiumboots.de)
submitted 1 day ago by intelisense@lemm.ee to c/buyfromeu@feddit.org
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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/59525691

I was getting disappointed with the quality of Converse boots before this whole thing kicked off. My partner suggested I try the French brand Paladium. The quality is much better. Apparently, the French paras use them. All I can say is they are more comfortable and last longer than my Converse ever did.

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Seriously guys! It’s drinkable in all EU countries! (europe.pub)
submitted 3 days ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/buyfromeu@feddit.org
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cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/47526

Absolutely not something to be given for granted.

Shoutout to u/UnusualInstance6 on Reddit

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Stunning Signal leak reveals depths of Trump administration’s loathing of Europe (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by nuko147@lemm.ee to c/buyfromeu@feddit.org
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From the Article:

“If you think we should do it let’s go. I just hate bailing Europe out again,” Vance replied. Hegseth agreed that “I fully share your loathing of European free-loading. It’s PATHETIC.” But, he added, “we are the only ones on the planet (on our side of the ledger) who can do this.”

Miller, the Trump confidant, effectively ended the conversation by saying that the president had been clear. “Green light, but we soon make clear to Egypt and Europe what we expect in return.”

Edit: The texts are released to public

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Is this from EU? - The app to verify brand origins (yaml file as a database, not your usual OpenAI wrapper) (isthisfrom.eu)
submitted 2 days ago by SrMono@feddit.org to c/buyfromeu@feddit.org
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geteilt von: https://feddit.nl/post/31056155

Creator: https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1jk70cz/i_built_an_app_to_check_if_a_brand_is_based_in_eu/

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Why buying from EU not from small businesses? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by dangling_cat@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/buyfromeu@feddit.org
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I have a genuine question about this movement. Small businesses and startups aren’t the problem. Why “buy from EU” instead of “stop buying from big corporations” regardless of their countries? Small businesses (from anywhere) cannot absorb the rising costs and tariffs, and they are struggling.

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Boycott US? New tariffs make people choose European products. Are we seeing a trend? (tuta.com)
submitted 3 days ago by Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win to c/buyfromeu@feddit.org
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/27500650

With the growing movement to boycott US goods, more people are choosing European alternatives. Let’s take a look at the best European products you can use.

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I mostly bought European ETFs (using flatexDEGIRO) (feddit.org)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by chmod755@feddit.org to c/buyfromeu@feddit.org
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An answer from Alternativeto.net that will make all of you happy (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 days ago by biofaust@lemmy.world to c/buyfromeu@feddit.org
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27325829

I asked on Mastodon a few minutes ago if Alternativeto.net was going to add any country fields or badges in order to make it easier for users like us to choose and already got this answer! Feel free to go boost favorite/boost their answer here.

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Alternatives to Interactive Brokers (i.postimg.cc)
submitted 4 days ago by Kualdir@europe.pub to c/buyfromeu@feddit.org
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Amazon is no more (for me) (feddit.org)
submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by marv99@feddit.org to c/buyfromeu@feddit.org
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Finally closed an episode which started cool & nice, accompanied me half of my life, took me to many different countries, but went toxic over the years. Still bit sad.

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Do You Brush Your Teeth The European Way? (i.redd.it)
submitted 6 days ago by Kualdir@europe.pub to c/buyfromeu@feddit.org
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The drum roll starts... (www.datatilsynet.no)
submitted 4 days ago by biofaust@lemmy.world to c/buyfromeu@feddit.org
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27327051

Article (in Norwegian) of the Norwegian Data Protection Authority answering the many questions they are receiving about EU-US Personal Data Transfers

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What about Gaming? (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 6 days ago by copacetic@discuss.tchncs.de to c/buyfromeu@feddit.org
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The gaming industry is huge and nearly all the big guys are from the US (Epic, Valve, EA, etc).

From EU, there is Ubisoft (Assassins Creed), CD Projekt Red (Cyberpunk 2077, Witcher) and Embracer (Kingdom Come).

Nintendo is non-US at least.

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Komoot acquired by tech firm, with expected mass layoffs leaving future of 150 staff in doubt (www.bikeradar.com)
submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by SrMono@feddit.org to c/buyfromeu@feddit.org
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Another one…

Bending spoons ist at least located in italy.

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mwmbl - the user-curated search engine (mwmbl.org)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by coldsideofyourpillow@lemmy.cafe to c/buyfromeu@feddit.org
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Mwmbl is a community-built, non-profit search engine that puts privacy and user control first. It offers a truly different search experience—one where the results are shaped not by corporate interests but by real people.

Key Features:

  • Ad-Free & Privacy-Respecting: No ads, no tracking, and no commercial interests—just a search engine built with the users in mind.

  • User-Curated Results: Instead of relying on algorithms, search results are refined and tuned by the community.

  • Community-Driven Crawling: The engine relies on volunteer-run crawlers. Although the index currently holds around 500 million unique URLs, there's massive potential.

  • Ambitious Growth Goals: mwmbl plans to reach 10 billion unique URLs by the end of 2025 and 100 billion by 2026, at which point it should be a true alternative to commercial search engines.

  • Open-Source: The project is fully open-source, meaning you can contribute to the code and help resolve issues to push the project forward.

How to Get Involved:

Right now, the search quality is pretty rough, but that’s where you can make an impact:

  • Contribute to the Index:

    • Install the Firefox Extension: Once installed, it crawls the web on your behalf.

    • Run the CLI Script: An even better option would be to use your spare computing power by running the command line crawler.

  • Join the Community: The main community is on Matrix for non-development related discussions.

  • Code Contributions: Check out the project on Codeberg. You can contribute code, report issues, or suggest new features to help make the search results better.

  • Financial Contributions: Donate some money towards hosting costs and supporting volunteers.

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If you really have to buy American (www.goodsuniteus.com)
submitted 1 week ago by SrMono@feddit.org to c/buyfromeu@feddit.org
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27114319

In the unlikely event that you can not find a European alternative, you may have to consider buying a US branded product. On this website you can look up the brand and see its politics.

"Corporations earn profits off of your everyday purchases. And some of those profits are then donated to politicians and causes you might not agree with." https://www.goodsuniteus.com/

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Privacy Guides - Private European Alternatives (www.privacyguides.org)
submitted 1 week ago by finn@feddit.org to c/buyfromeu@feddit.org
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Privacy Guides is a non-profit project that provides information and recommendations related to privacy and security. Yesterday, they published a blogpost on european alternatives specifically.

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For us the new Users: Lemmy Apps Directory (MEGATHREAD) (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 week ago by nuko147@lemm.ee to c/buyfromeu@feddit.org
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13129663

Lemmy Apps Directory

The following is a directory of current Lemmy apps. This list includes apps that have released in the last 6 months, or have been confirmed to be in active development, with the most recent at the top. You can find a list including older apps here (unmaintained apps may have security or compatibility issues). The open source symbol indicates that an app is FOSS.

Android

icon Summit
Github !summit@lemmy.world Play Store
1.52.3 2025-01-22

Summit is an app for Lemmy that enables you to explore hundreds of communities with ease. Summit is optimized for Android and offers a smooth browsing experience.

Dev: @idunnololz@lemmy.world

icon Voyager open source
Source !voyagerapp@lemmy.world Play Store
2.23.2 2025-01-19 F-Droid

Voyager is an Apollo-like open source web client for Lemmy. It's a mobile-first app, but works great on desktop devices, too. Please feel free to try it out!

Dev: @aeharding@lemmy.world

icon Racoon open source
Source !raccoonforlemmyapp@lemmy.world
** 1.14.0** 2025-01-06 GitHub Release

Raccoon for Lemmy is a client for the federated aggregation and discussion platform Lemmy. The project started as an exercise to play around with Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) and Compose multiplatform and gradually grew as a fully functional client with many features.

Dev: @ akesi_seli@lemmy.world

icon Interstellar open source
Source Play Store
0.7.1 2024-12-16 Flathub

An app for Kbin, Mbin, and Lemmy; connecting you to the fediverse.

Dev: @jwr1@kbin.earth

icon Jerboa (Official Android client) open source
Source !jerboa@lemmy.ml Play Store
0.0.77-alpha 2024-09-27 F-Droid

Jerboa for Lemmy An app for Lemmy, a federated reddit alternative. Jerboa is an app for Lemmy, a federated reddit alternative. Jerboa is made by Lemmy's developers, and is free, open-source software, meaning no advertising, monetizing, or venture capital, ever. Lemmy is similar to sites like Reddit, Lobste.rs, or Hacker News: you subscribe to forums you're interested in, post links and discussions, then vote, and comment on them. Behind the scenes, it is very different; anyone can easily run a server, and all these servers are federated (think email), and connected to the same universe, called the Fediverse.

Dev: @dessalines@lemmy.ml

icon Thunder open source
Source !thunder_app@lemmy.world Play Store
0.5.1 2024-08-20 IzzyOnDroid

Thunder is a fully open source, cross-platform, community-driven project available on GitHub. Fully free of advertisements and trackers. Thunder is still very early on in development and many more features are yet to be available!

Dev: @darklightxi@lemmy.world

icon Eternity open source
Source !eternityapp@lemdro.id Play Store
0.2.0 2024-08-06 F-Droid

A client for Lemmy, specifically designed for Android and written in Java. This project is a fork of the Infinity for Reddit project, and it is currently in the early stages of development. As such, expect many unfinished features and potential bugs!

Dev: @bazsalanszky@lemmy.toldi.eu

icon Connect
!lemmyconnect@lemmy.ca Play Store
1.0.192 2024-08-22 APKPure

A native application for browsing the social platform Lemmy and the Fediverse.

Dev: @kuro_neko@lemmy.ca

icon Boost
!boostforlemmy@lemmy.world Play Store
1.0.14 2024-07-14

Boost for Lemmy is designed to provide a seamless browsing experience for the decentralized social platform Lemmy and the Fediverse.

Dev: @rmayayo@lemmy.world

icon Sync
GitHub !syncforlemmy@lemmy.world Play Store
24.03.12-19:36 2024-03-12

A beautiful Lemmy app for browsing Lemmy on the go!

Dev: @ljdawson@lemmy.world

iOS

icon Voyager open source
Source !voyagerapp@lemmy.world App Store
2.23.2 2025-01-19

Voyager is an Apollo-like open source web client for Lemmy. It's a mobile-first app, but works great on desktop devices, too. Please feel free to try it out!

Dev: @aeharding@lemmy.world

icon Arctic
Website !arctic@lemmy.world App Store
1.5.2 2025-01-08 TestFlight

Arctic For Lemmy is a free and native iOS client for Lemmy. In the spirit of the Fediverse, Arctic is completely free and private. No data of any kind will be collected from your device, and no pesky advertisements, Ever. Arctic was built specifically for iOS and runs natively on pure Swift. Enjoy browsing feeds with embedded content that keeps you out of the browser, and in the app. Engage in the conversation using the rich markdown editor, and intuitive post composer

Dev: @CreatureSurvive@lemmy.world

icon Echo
!echo@eventfrontier.com App Store
1.5 2024-12-11

Echo for Lemmy is a fully native iOS application built using fully native Apple SDKs. This means it feels right at home on your iPhone and is designed to be fast, efficient, and easy to use. No overhead from web views or cross-platform frameworks.

Dev: @fishcharlie@eventfrontier.com

icon Thunder open source
Source !thunder_app@lemmy.world App Store
0.5.1 2024-08-20

Thunder is a fully open source, cross-platform, community-driven project available on GitHub. Fully free of advertisements and trackers. Thunder is still very early on in development and many more features are yet to be available!

Dev: @darklightxi@lemmy.world

icon Lemmios
!lemmiosapp@lemmy.world App Store
1.9 2024-08-12 TestFlight

Lemmios is a client built for Lemmy. Discover and browse through all parts of the fediverse in an intuitive way.

Dev: @mrlavallee@lemmy.world

icon Mlem open source
Source !mlemapp@lemmy.ml App Store
1.3 2024-05-05 Website

Mlem is the first native SwiftUI Lemmy client on the AppStore. It feels right at home on your iPhone (and soon iPad and Mac). With tons of options for customizing your your experience.

Dev: @ericbandrews@lemmy.ml

Linux

icon Neon Modem Overdrive open source
Source Site
v1.0.5 2024-05-28 GitHub Release

BBS-style command line client that supports Discourse, Lemmy, Lobsters and Hacker News

Web

icon Alexandrite open source
Source !alexandrite@lemmy.world Web UI
0.8.15 2025-01-20

Alexandrite is a desktop-first alternative Lemmy client.

Dev: @sheodox@lemmy.world

icon Voyager open source
Source !voyagerapp@lemmy.world Web UI
2.23.2 2025-01-19

Voyager is an Apollo-like open source web client for Lemmy. It's a mobile-first app, but works great on desktop devices, too. Please feel free to try it out!

Dev: @aeharding@lemmy.world

icon Tesseract open source
Source !tesseract@dubvee.org Web UI
1.4.29 2025-01-13

Formerly Tesseract for Lemmy. Now “Tesseract for Sublinks” Development is now targeting the upcoming Sublinks project. As Sublinks aims to provide initial compatibility with Lemmy, Tesseract will continue to work with Lemmy for the foreseeable future. Once the Sublinks project moves into its native API phase, Lemmy support will be dropped from Tesseract.

Dev: @ptz@dubvee.org

icon Photon open source
Source !Photon@lemdro.id Web UI
1.31.4 2024-09-20

An sleek web client for Lemmy using mono-ui, a custom design system.

Dev: @Xylight@lemdro.id

icon Quiblr
!quiblr@lemmy.world Web UI
2.1.0 2024-08-03

Quiblr aims to build an intuitive, accessible, and modern interface to connect users to the fediverse.

Dev: @Aurelius@lemmy.world

icon mlmym open source
Source Web UI
0.0.50 2024-07-21

a familiar desktop experience for lemmy.

Dev: @

icon Lemmuy-UI open source
Source !lemmy@lemmy.ml Web UI
0.19.5 2024-06-19

The official web app for Lemmy, written in inferno. Based off of MrFoxPro's inferno-isomorphic-template.

Dev: @dessalines@lemmy.ml

icon Lemmynade
Site !lemmynade@lemm.ee Web UI
Alpha v4 2/23/2024

Lemmynade is the refreshing web app for Lemmy, currently in development. The goal is to make Lemmy more powerful, approachable, useable, and sustainable. Follow !lemmynade@lemm.ee for announcements and updates

Dev: @silas@programming.dev

~Updated 2025-01-23~

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