Buy European
Overview:
The community to discuss buying European goods and services.
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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
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With Motorola going with GrapheneOS and Jolla coming back with a Linux phone, I wonder how Denmark will react. Will the Danish government make versions of Mit ID for these operating systems?
For those who don't know, "nemkonto" is a centralised digital ID system in the Danish government to which all your things are tied. You use a security app called "Mit ID" to log into places that make use of your personal information.
Your bank requires your Mit ID, your doctor requires your Mit ID, your ISP requires your Mit ID. Every time you log into anything remotely official you are required to log in with Mit ID.
On Android it requires Google's security services and a locked down phone to function. So rooting is not an option, as it takes away your ability to use your phone to simply... Exist... As a citizen.
You can get a code key device from the Kommune, but you can only use that to log into things through the Web browser of your PC. On your phone you are required to use the app, and if thr app doesn't work then you're simply not logging in. Something as basic as checking your bank balance becomes a major annoyance.
Re: the code device. All apps requiring MitID works perfectly fine on the phone without the app as far as I can tell. There's no need to use the web browser of your PC. Source: I had the code device and a phone with e/os/
That sounds so dystopian and yet so many governments are moving towards similar ideas.
What stops you from using the code key device with your phone. Can it not plug into any USB port and output a code? If their site says it doesn't work on mobile, can you change the browser user agent?
Code key device is not something you plug into a USB. You push a button and it generates a code for manual input.
On websites that require a Mit ID log-in you have options to change to the code device instead. With an app on your phone it requires the Mit ID app to be present, as well as the phone to still have Google's security process running.
Several apps can have the Google security spoofed, but still require the Mit ID app. Mit ID, on the other hand, cannot be spoofed at all.
I see, that's frustrating, especially if the same functionality isn't available via the web. My university's IT department helped with exceptions and gave me a workaround to the Windows/Mac-only VPN software they were using and made me a different kind of account to login on my Linux laptop so I could access intranet resources. Unfortunately, this wasn't advertised and I didn't find out about it until a year in.
I have simply moved to the OTC keyring.
I've felt the pain of the mitID strictness, it really sucks. But can't you request the desktop version of a site om your phone when logging in and using the code key device?
The MitID keygen works on mobile browsers, it just has to be chromium based and all telemetry enabled. It is not a nice experience, but in a pinch itโs doable.
Ech... I don't use Chromium browsers...
Yea it sucks, but thatโs sadly how it is for most danish government sites. Itโs almost like everything is hardcoded for chromium and anyone not using that can get fucked. That is at least my experience though I should mention that librewolf on Linux works flawlessly.
Yup, my biggest reason for not running e/os on my Fairphone in denmark. Idk what to do other than carry 2 phones or wait
Finland had a similar system. It's the only reason I can't move over to graphene or others.
Not all Finnish banks require play services for their apps, if any. Mine works just fine on eOS. Don't know about Mobiilivarmenne, if you'd rather use that
Is this a recent change?
I don't know about play services, but a few years ago I received errors that the security of my device was compromised or something, if I installed a different OS, and couldn't use banking apps.
Edit: come to think of it, it wasn't "a few" years, more like "many years" ago.
You can use the key card for manual input in that case. I had to use it for awhile myself