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.
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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
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Bought a Slimbook Laptop because Apple's repair would take too long. Slimbook is a Spanish company. We generally buy laptops from smaller suppliers at our company since.
We have been running on European providers for our rented servers for over a decade and are happy there too.
Gmail โ> ProtonMail.
Google drive and iCloud โ> PCloud, ProtonDrive, Kooft (still have to drop one or 2).
Google translateโ> DeepL.
Uber โ> Bolt.
Windows โ> Linux (although still mostly using windows b/c company laptop).
Google maps โ> Mapy, although still sometimes using google for street view.
Edge, Chrome โ> Vivaldi, Ecosia.
Google search โ> Ecosia.
ChatGPT โ> LeChat (Mistral), although still sometimes use ChatGPT.
WhatsApp โ> Signal (open source, although still American) and Threema.
Fixing your formatting:
Gmail โ> ProtonMail.
Google drive and iCloud โ> PCloud, ProtonDrive, Kooft (still have to drop one or 2).
Google translateโ> DeepL.
Uber โ> Bolt.
Windows โ> Linux (although still mostly using windows b/c company laptop).
Google maps โ> Mapy, although still sometimes using google for street view.
Edge, Chrome โ> Vivaldi, Ecosia.
Google search โ> Ecosia.
ChatGPT โ> LeChat (Mistral), although still sometimes use ChatGPT.
WhatsApp โ> Signal (open source, although still American) and Threema.
I'd also recommend these - and always use a paid VPN!:
Mail: ProtonMail, Mailbox
Cloud storage: Peergos (self-hosted),
Translate: DeepL
Taxi: just use public transit, or Bolt
Software: Linux
Phone: Fairphone (Google Pixel is claimed to be safer for privacy, but I still don't trust Google)
Maps: OsmAnd or OpenStreetMaps
Browser: Firefox, Librefox (or the usual onion, if censorship is that bad)
Search: Ecosia, Qwant, SearXNG (if you know how to self-host)
AI Chat: Kobold.cpp or Ollama (latter downloads models automatically, but former is better elsewhere)
Messaging: Signal, Threema, Wire
Qobuz (music streaming) is pretty sweet thus far.
I don't get their business model. They're not even available in half of Europe...
I have also switched to them from Apple Music, I just wish their selection was bigger.
FYI: In the mobile app there is link in the settings to a form where you can report missing albums.
I havenโt gotten around to using this feature yet, but I think itโs awesome that it exists.
I also hope that theyโll be able to grow their catalogue, but I must point out that I donโt find it to be poor - I just wish it was even bigger.
They also have other areas where I hope they improve, like catalogue organisation and even better discovery (or Discover tab), but over all I like them very much and I have faith theyโll become even better (with a bigger user base).
They also have their own standout features. I.e Iโve always wanted playlist search that searches artist AND song title AND album - Qobuz has that.
Ditched Cloudflare and am now running Pangolin on a VPS at Infomaniak in Switzerland for all my tunnels and reverse proxies.
Did the same after discovering Pangolin. What a great tool! ๐๐ป
Nextcloud has been a pretty good switch but it is getting unwieldy and a swiss knife with a million tools. Run my own email server switched from gmail, but it is a pita VPS server is contabo - not the best but pretty cheap and is European - never really looked into how european they are though and they have US datacenters
I got the wow private server Warmane (Western European hosted) client setup on Nobara so when my current wow sub ends no more cash is heading to Blizzard in getting my original wow trilogy fix. Turtle Wow also covers the season of discovery itch.