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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Include a disclaimer at the bottom of the post if you're affiliated with the recommendation.
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No russian suggestions.
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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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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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๐ซ๐ฎ Finland: https://sopuli.xyz/ & https://suppo.fi/
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๐ฎ๐น Italy: https://feddit.it/
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๐ต๐ฑ Poland: https://fedit.pl/ & https://szmer.info/
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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, 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
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You know Europe is like, five steps behind the US, right? The "we're still not legally allowed to call ourselves Nazi" party is winning in Germany, the continent keeps trying to make privacy illegal, and I'm pretty sure Italy already is fascist again.
And yet that is still miles away from whatever is happening in the US. You are aware of that, right?
I assume that's what he meant with the "five steps behind". As in, not worse, but heading the same direction.
I am an European, but I have to digress he kind of has a point (even though it was unnecesiarly condescending). It's definitely nowhere near as bad as in the US, and I think our political systems are a little bit more resistant to it than in the US, but alt-right rhetorics and parties are picking up way faster than I'd like.
I mean, Slovakia is a recent and pretty terryfiing example.
Which means we still have five chances to change course before ending up where the US is?
I'll take the easy bait.
Are you saying EU is five steps behind the USA in terms of privacy and other social protections? I thought it was the opposite, there's already a far right wannabe king in the USA, weak privacy laws and weak social system that keeps getting dismantled by the current government.
Let me know why you think the opposite.
"five steps behind" meaning they're heading the same direction and almost as far along.
I see, well then it remains five steps better so far and there are not many better alternatives.
Well sir, abandon your homeland if you must rather than stay and fight. But know this: I've never implemented a temporary solution I didn't come to regret.
You can abandon it temporarily to learn different ways and bring this experience back to better contribute to your country later. Sometimes it's a matter of danger for your life and relatives too, if your group is getting targeted by the regime.
Don't known why you're being down voted. Things are bad in Europe. Economy is bad, xenophobia and extremism, cost of living. In a few countries there's already crackdowns on freedom of speech. On top of that there's crazy tensions with Russia.
Its true that culture is great and quality of life is very good if you can afford it but that's getting out of reach for more and more people.
US has way more advantages. Better to fight to keep your system and make it work.
I don't know if you've noticed, but almost every bad thing you mentioned for Europe also applies to the US, and in some cases even in more extreme ways. The only one that doesn't apply is the tensions with Russia because all Putin needs to do it talk some sweet talk and Trump with kiss his feet.
What's the other person is saying is "Don't go living in that dumpster, it smells. Stay here in my dumpster that also smells but is also on fire." It fucking sucks everywhere but I'm not going to fault anyone for wanting to get away from the fascist hellscape that is the US.
What more advantages does the US have if you're not rich?