Buy European
Overview:
The community to discuss buying European goods and services.
Rules:
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Be kind to each other, and argue in good faith. No direct insults nor disrespectful and condescending comments.
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Do not use this community to promote Nationalism/Euronationalism. This community is for discussing European products/services and news related to that. For other topics the following might be of interest:
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Include a disclaimer at the bottom of the post if you're affiliated with the recommendation.
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No russian suggestions.
Feddit.uk's instance rules apply:
- No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia or xenophobia.
- No incitement of violence or promotion of violent ideologies.
- No harassment, dogpiling or doxxing of other users.
- Do not share intentionally false or misleading information.
- Do not spam or abuse network features.
- Alt accounts are permitted, but all accounts must list each other in their bios.
- No generative AI content.
Useful Websites
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General BuyEuropean product database: https://buy-european.net/ (relevant post with background info)
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Switching your tech to European TLDR: https://better-tech.eu/tldr/ (relevant post)
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Buy European meta website with useful links: https://gohug.eu/ (relevant post)
Benefits of Buying Local:
local investment, job creation, innovation, increased competition, more redundancy.
European Instances
Lemmy:
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Basque Country: https://lemmy.eus/
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๐ง๐ช Belgium: https://0d.gs/
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๐ง๐ฌ Bulgaria: https://feddit.bg/
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Catalonia: https://lemmy.cat/
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๐จ๐ฟCzech Republic https://lemmings.world/
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๐ฉ๐ฐ Denmark, including Greenland (for now): https://feddit.dk/
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๐ช๐บ Europe: https://europe.pub/
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๐ซ๐ท๐ง๐ช๐จ๐ญ France, Belgium, Switzerland: https://jlai.lu/
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๐ฉ๐ช๐ฆ๐น๐จ๐ญ๐ฑ๐ฎ Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Lichtenstein: https://feddit.org/
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๐ซ๐ฎ Finland: https://sopuli.xyz/ & https://suppo.fi/
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๐ฎ๐น Italy: https://feddit.it/
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๐ฑ๐น Lithuania: https://group.lt/
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๐ฑ๐บ Luxembourg https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/
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๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands: https://feddit.nl/
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๐ต๐ฑ Poland: https://fedit.pl/ & https://szmer.info/
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๐ต๐น Portugal: https://lemmy.pt/
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๐ธ๐ฎ Slovenia: https://gregtech.eu/
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๐ธ๐ช Sweden: https://feddit.nu/
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๐น๐ท Turkey: https://lemmy.com.tr/
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๐ฌ๐ง UK: https://feddit.uk/
Friendica:
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๐ฆ๐น Austria: https://friendica.io/
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๐ฎ๐น Italy: https://poliverso.org/
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๐ฉ๐ช Germany: https://piratenpartei.social/ & https://anonsys.net/
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๐ซ๐ท Significant French speaking userbase: https://social.trom.tf/
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๐ต๐ฑ Poland: soc.citizen4.eu
Matrix:
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๐ฌ๐ง UK: matrix.org & glasgow.social
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๐ซ๐ท France: tendomium & imagisphe.re & hadoly.fr
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๐ฉ๐ช Germany: tchncs.de, catgirl.cloud, pub.solar, yatrix.org, digitalprivacy.diy, oblak.be, nope.chat, hot-chilli.im, synod.im & rollenspiel.chat
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๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands: bark.lgbt
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๐ฆ๐น Austria: gemeinsam.jetzt & private.coffee
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๐ซ๐ฎ Finland: pikaviestin.fi & chat.blahaj.zone
Related Communities:
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A video on how to leave gmail on....gtube? I'll pass ๐
They also run their own peertube instance and publish their videos there. OP could have posted that link instead.
Here you go:
https://peertube.heise.de/w/qWbFwEfTW5TgheJ6v2CZNe
@OP - if you read this please add the peertube link to you post
Wow that's really cool
Thank you very much, updated the link!
Ah okay. I don't usually consume social media so I don't know. It just sounded satirical.
Here is your peertube vid.
/edit: Yes, heise has a official peertube server and I think we should use it.
Thank you very much, updated the link!
Well, you target where most people with GMail are... I've ditched GMail (and all other Google services) some decade ago and have been on ProtonMail and alike alternatives since. I'll never go back.
That's also true, you preach where the sinners are...
Might be not wrong to preach where the sinners are, but as a google-fanboy why would i even click on such blasphemy? ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Yeah, me too. But I host my own mail since forever. Since google ditched their "don't be evil"-slogan I avoided them bastards. "Just a search-engine, nothing else" yeah lol sure... I didn't even buy their stock back then, knowing they will now start to earn. Although I surely didn't expect THIS.
I mean, you and me not, but someone stuck in Google ecossstem, it is relevant for them.
Totally. Yet why should they even click on "how to get away from all my essentially important things"-video at all.
It's more for those in between. Having the will to move but no fucking clue how.
Anyhow, can't hurt either. I just found the irony funny, it was no critique of the post itself or the video.
Well, everyone needs a trigger. For me it was a friend who suddenly deleted his Facebook account ages ago. Which made me thinking, why am I even on here (Facebook)... It's when it started for me. Then Google did some shit that got leaked how they are manipulating things and all the creepy monitoring that came to light and that's when I started slowly phasing it all out.
First to go was Google Search. It wasn't even good, we just all used it. Move to DuckDuckGo was so easy because DDG was jjst so much better and without bullshit personalized searches that fucked everything up. Next big one was GMail that took the most work and effort since I had to move all accounts to new ProtonMail address. But now that it's done, it was worth the effort. Next to follow was actually moving away from Android phone to iPhone despite hating Apple before because they were just stupid company. Solely just to get away from whole Google thing. That transition made me ditch centralized service dependency. iPhone was just a vessel that powered all the 3rd party services, be it multimedia, cloud storage, emails, messaging, all of it is 3rd party (none was from Google or Apple) and none of it is interconnected in any way. I've since returned to Android phone (Samsung where I use their services over Google's if required) but following same principles. Really only Google thing I even use is GooglePlay store that you need for apps and its account that's required. I've even gone as far that my Location Services has been just entirely disabled for few years now. I only turn it on when using navigation which is rare. Oh and I filter all my devices with DNS level filtering using Hagezi Ultimate filter list which is the most aggressive of them all. Considering I don't even get any false positives or issues with it tells me all the tracking and spying crap doesn't even affect me as whole and is just quietly filtered in the background.
I've minimized my online footprint to absolute minimum now and one might thik my life is difficult having to deal with so much privacy things, but it really isn't. Transition took time and effort, but now that I have system in place it's zero effort. It just works and moving between platforms has never been easier since I don't depend on any. I can move from Android phone to iPhone in like 1-2 hours and I'd instantly migrate it all in that time since I just need to install those 3rd party apps and services and login to them. Hell, I can run any of those 3rd party services across Windows, Linux, Android and iPhone all at once since they support all of them. It's really so cool and gives me so much freedom to just choose anything at any time with minimal effort.
Great mate. As for search I suggest searxng. Either selfhosted or one of the many instances. It just anonymizes your queries and aggregate results from many possible searches in one.
Phones I'd suggest some Linux phone or, irony admitted, a pixel with grapheneos.
For DNS a self hosted pihole is the tits. Runs on a tiny raspy if you don't have a home-server.
I do have one phone with google. But only for all my banks and depots. Totally anonymous account, separate isolated WiFi, it has no idea who owns it or where it is. Sadly those banks consider a google phone I carry around all day "safe" and a PC with an emulated android "not safe". And no bank ever could explain why.
But I have time to be that paranoid.