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:
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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/
๐จ๐ฟCzech Republic https://lemmings.world/
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/
๐ฑ๐บ Luxembourg https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/
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, 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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Companies:
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Also, donโt leave your account unused, delete it. User and follower numbers count.
And least as important, reply (if necessary to another corporate mail address) every email with Twitter/X in the footer, with a kind request to stop promoting and facilitating X.
The best moment to delete your Twitter account was ten years ago. The second best is now.
"Moment" has multiple meanings, but one meaning is a synonym of a literal second.
Every moment, then, is the (Now.InSeconds() - BestMoment.InSeconds()).ToString() + "th" best time to delete your Twitter account.
I deleted mine the day after Musk took it over, which is somewhere in the middle I think lol
Maybe the world could stop doing any business at with this apartheid Nazi welfare queen? Heโs trying to destroy your countries with Nazism and grift your tax dollars while selling out your privacy too
Why dont companies and governments switch to Mastodon instead?
They should return to RSS feeds
I think they want a bigger reach than both of us when they put out public statements.
Honestly they should get off all social media and just post announcements on their own websites not subject to billionaire influence & not having to deal with trolls.
Deleted my twitter account a decade ago when I commented on a Canada Proud twitter post that resulted in months of non-stop harassment. It's always been this, they've just been turning up the heat year on year, and now people realize it's boiling.
Did it once that loser bought the platform. I use Bluesky.
got banned before that shitshow. thankfully. only lasted a few months. Rs are so fragile.
@CircaV @Europellinore Personally, I'm using Mastodon over BlueSky and I wonder why it has not got the same attention as bluesky :
- It's decentralized and you can host your own, to help with data safety
- This also prevents it from turnuing into another twitter since if that happens, you can just host an old version or fork the code and continue updating it
- It's compatible with activitypub, so you can post and reply on Lemmy from a Mastodon account, like this one!
But yeah, it's pretty annoying to switch from one platform to another since your followers are not likely to do the same. Maybe that's why?
I tried mastodon. I guess I didnโt try hard enough. I will revisit.
after years of timeouts and fbjail, facebook ai permabanned me and no idea why. Guess i wasn't seeing enough ads. all blocked for years, haha. ai bots posting slop for other ai bots to click on. fool and his money. delete everything then make them permaban you. twitter banned me years ago. never missed that mess
If your user name is closely tied to your online identity, I am hesitant to delete if they recycle the usernames and some total nut job takes your old handle and people think you've gone off the deep end - just a thought.
Understandable, especially when there might be a lot of links to the profile around the internet. However, in that particular case itโs still possible to delete all content, contacts / follows, followers, and profile images and descriptions etcetera, make the profile private, and give it some semi-permanent dead existence, or delete if a year later or so.
If you haven't already quit then a whole lot of people have already made a whole lot of assumptions about your character.
And then there's others who have been judging you all, the entire time, for ever using Twitter. It was always garbage, I never understood why it took off.
What X account? Or Bluesky for that matter...
Twitter and similar services are primarily used by narcisists that believe they're right in all matters.
I prefer open-source social media, but X is quite good at providing the most up-to-date news.
Might be true in some cases, but up to date news becomes pretty useless when covered under a large amount of fake news.
I never had one, but I can see one single reason to keep it: Help pull over people to Fediverse.