Overview:
The community to discuss buying European goods and services.
Rules:
Be kind to each other, and argue in good faith. No direct insults nor disrespectful and condescending comments.
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:
Include a disclaimer at the bottom of the post if you're affiliated with the recommendation.
No russian suggestions.
Feddit.uk's instance rules apply:
Useful Websites
General BuyEuropean product database: https://buy-european.net/ (relevant post with background info)
Switching your tech to European TLDR: https://better-tech.eu/tldr/ (relevant post)
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:
Basque Country: https://lemmy.eus/
๐ง๐ช Belgium: https://0d.gs/
๐ง๐ฌ Bulgaria: https://feddit.bg/
Catalonia: https://lemmy.cat/
๐ฉ๐ฐ Denmark, including Greenland (for now): https://feddit.dk/
๐ช๐บ Europe: https://europe.pub/
๐ซ๐ท๐ง๐ช๐จ๐ญ France, Belgium, Switzerland: https://jlai.lu/
๐ฉ๐ช๐ฆ๐น๐จ๐ญ๐ฑ๐ฎ Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Lichtenstein: https://feddit.org/
๐ซ๐ฎ Finland: https://sopuli.xyz/ & https://suppo.fi/
๐ฎ๐ธ Iceland: https://feddit.is/
๐ฎ๐น Italy: https://feddit.it/
๐ฑ๐น Lithuania: https://group.lt/
๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands: https://feddit.nl/
๐ต๐ฑ Poland: https://fedit.pl/ & https://szmer.info/
๐ต๐น Portugal: https://lemmy.pt/
๐ธ๐ฎ Slovenia: https://gregtech.eu/
๐ธ๐ช Sweden: https://feddit.nu/
๐น๐ท Turkey: https://lemmy.com.tr/
๐ฌ๐ง UK: https://feddit.uk/
Friendica:
๐ฆ๐น Austria: https://friendica.io/
๐ฎ๐น Italy: https://poliverso.org/
๐ฉ๐ช Germany: https://piratenpartei.social/ & https://anonsys.net/
๐ซ๐ท Significant French speaking userbase: https://social.trom.tf/
๐ต๐ฑ Poland: soc.citizen4.eu
Matrix:
๐ฌ๐ง UK: matrix.org & glasgow.social
๐ซ๐ท France: tendomium & imagisphe.re & hadoly.fr
๐ฉ๐ช Germany: tchncs.de, catgirl.cloud, pub.solar, yatrix.org, digitalprivacy.diy, oblak.be, nope.chat, envs.net, hot-chilli.im, synod.im & rollenspiel.chat
๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands: bark.lgbt
๐ฆ๐น Austria: gemeinsam.jetzt & private.coffee
๐ซ๐ฎ Finland: pikaviestin.fi & chat.blahaj.zone
Related Communities:
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Boycott:
Countries:
Companies:
Stop Publisher Kill Switch in Games Practice:
Banner credits: BYTEAlliance
Details:
Site - https://purchasewithpurpose.eu/
Code - https://codeberg.org/purchase-with-purpose/pwp-website
Community - https://lemmy.world/c/PurchaseWithPurpose
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Why is there no section for alternatives to reddit? We should really push more people into the fediverse.
Pop_OS I not very good at gaming. Try looking into Gardua Linux and Bazzite as they have more modern packages and faster driver updates.
Cachy OS is also pretty solid in my experience. But i cant really compare it as i didnt use anything else so far
I personally use cachyOS as a daily driver (I got tired of Arch) and it is pretty good performance wise, I just experience a lot of stability problems compared to gardua or bazzite. Still stand by my choice, its an amazing distro.
Or Manjaro. Arch purist weeaboos hate it, but it's made in Germany, is amazing for gaming and has very fast driver updates. Additionaly, the installation is super simple and fast.
In my experience Manjaro only has problems when you use AUR dependencies break because some package hasn't been updated for Manjaro. Other than that, it's perfect for me.
Okay, one questian. What about mega.io? I never see anyone talking about them, neither negatively or positively. Are they ok for folk around here, non-foss aside?
Isn't that the descendant of Megaupload?
The pricing looks good to me... and also the scrolling animation on their webpage.
Eyup, it is. I like the plan I have with them, just curious of public opinion...which there seems to be none xD
For Linux, there's also Arch if you know what are you doing. Manjaro might be a good first step into the Arch ecosystem, even if there are obvious differences, as Manjaro is a different distro, not just a (poorly) preconfigured Arch installation line Omarchy.
If you include Nextcloud Memories for photo management, why not include it for data storage and web office as well?
i was a big fan of flickr before they got bought by yahoo and enshittified
Where's the collaborative calendaring guide?
Does anyone have any experience with Zeitkapsl? I switched to Ente almost a year ago and am generally happy with them, but I'd rather support a European company if they're offering more or less the same solution.
Ive been using zeitkapsl for about 8 months now. Does the trick, very basic functionality, but also really quick and good response from the company if you find a bug or you have questions etc
Great! I might give it a try this weekend. They have a free trial after all.
A few suggestions:
Ente can be cloud hosted or self hosted. The use of cloud connectivity is optional. (Shown correctly on the linked website)
Fedora is another beginner friendly OS, and Bazzite is become a more popular gaming OS.
The companies below have proven to be reputable and worth supporting.
Spotify
Pays artists $0.0003 per play
Shows ICE ads
Says something about see deep dive for disclaimer, but I donโt see a link in the post body. But interested to see whatโs on there.
Edit: found the link
Warning
They pay significantly less royalties, promote AI music, and platform podcasters who spread misinformation - context: https://t.ly/spotify-history. They do offer a superior service, but some people choose not to support them for these reasons.
Yeah so, that doesnโt align with โreputableโ and โworth supportingโ.
Yeah I've been looking to get off Spotify for a while now. Was shocked to see it recommended. It's a shame tidal removed their "connect" feature, it would have made it so easy
I just checked and the Connect feature in Tidal appears to still be there. I don't use it though so can't say for sure.
I switched from Spotify to Tidal and I've been really happy with it, but it's of course American. Deezer and Qobuz aren't worthwhile Spotify alternatives.
Apple Music is actually better than Spotify, which deserves to sit on the left too along with the American options (no, I wouldn't move Apple Music to the right)
I would add Librewolf in the browsers and Searx in the search engines.
Honestly if you have to put american things in the change columns then swap spotify and youtube music, spotify is just soo bad
I appreciate the transparency in this post but I find it odd there are so many American/Canadian options in the change to column.
I got to the bottom of the image and Lemmy and Piefed not even on there, ha wtf. Iโd add Migadu for email and Kagi for search, both very good value.
Vivaldi Mail beats Proton and Tuta because Vivaldi strongly opposes cryptocurrencies / pyramid schemes, the others support it.