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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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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๐ฎ๐ธ Iceland: https://feddit.is/
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๐ฎ๐น Italy: https://feddit.it/
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๐ฑ๐น Lithuania: https://group.lt/
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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/
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, envs.net, 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:
Buy Local:
Continents:
European:
Buying and Selling:
Boycott:
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Companies:
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!deapple@lemm.ee (old)
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!deapple@piefed.social (new)
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!deamazon@lemm.ee (old)
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!deamazon@piefed.social (new)
Stop Publisher Kill Switch in Games Practice:
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!skg@lemmy.dbzer0.com (new)
Banner credits: BYTEAlliance
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As a general idea: Very much, pretty much everyone around agrees that it's a good thing and 'we' should do it. When the choise would be slightly inconvenient for them personally: Not so much.
And obviously there's the few who actually use signal and fediverse, drop meta/google/twitter and make active choises when shopping for things, but there's not too many of them. Here in Finland we have markings on food which are domestically produced, but as very few pineapples or olives grow around here I don't think too many pays attention on where the products come from. And then there's chain labels like Coop which often label country of origin as 'EU and non-EU countries' anyways.
And I'm not any different, even if I consider to have pretty decent knowledge on things. On groceries things like Coca-Cola are produced locally even if the mothership gets their cut and with corporations like Nestle it's just pretty much a lost cause trying to keep up what brands are "bad" by some metric.
At least on digital world it's a bit easier, but there's still things like whatsapp and instagram which are important enough due to their massive user base that they just can't be ignored for various reasons. And with electronics I try to avoid at least the cheapest Chinese crap, both for quality and security (yeah, I know, not using Huawei phone to use Meta apps is a bit hypocrite). But I also try to stay away from Google services (but I'm not going to root my phone just for that), run Linux almost everywhere (but that's what I've been doing for 20+years anyways, it's not about country of origin), use Amazon only if there isn't alternative (or the alternative is so much more expensive that it just doesn't make sense in personal scale) and so on.
Maybe it does something, maybe it doesn't. I just try to throw my pennies in a hat whenever possible to keep things around locally. I live in a small rural town and if I need a can of paint or a single bolt I need to drive ~50km round trip to get anything. Should someone open a hardware store in here I would be the first customer just to show support. But I'm not made out of money either and have my limitations in life, so if the local business is too slow, too expensive, too rude or whatever else I'm not going to feel too bad when they go down. And that's the general idea I try to apply even more broad scope, whenever there's a "local" viable alternative I try to prefer that, just to keep competition alive and have more european base values around, but I'm not going to make my life unnecessary complicated because of that either.