this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2025
125 points (100.0% liked)

Buy European

7262 readers
637 users here now

Overview:

The community to discuss buying European goods and services.


Matrix Chat of this community


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:

  • 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

Benefits of Buying Local:

local investment, job creation, innovation, increased competition, more redundancy.

European Instances

Lemmy:

Friendica:

Matrix:


Related Communities:

Buy Local:

Continents:

European:

Buying and Selling:

Boycott:

Countries:

Companies:

Stop Publisher Kill Switch in Games Practice:


Banner credits: BYTEAlliance


founded 8 months ago
MODERATORS
 

GroenLinks-PvdA Member of Parliament Barbara Kathmann calls the switch to Microsoft by government agencies "an affront not only to the House of Representatives, but also to Dutch and European businesses." Earlier today, outgoing State Secretary for Taxation Eugรจne Heijnen (BBB) informed the House of Representatives about the switch to Microsoft 365 by the Tax and Customs Administration, the Benefits Agency, and Customs. This means that these services will become dependent on this American software giant for their daily work.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] Squizzy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I hate that they want you to use desktop apps for everything when the benefit of it all is the web based aspect. I hate google, I would switch back to gsuite in a flat second. M365 sucks in every way.