Buy European
Overview:
The community to discuss buying European goods and services.
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Include a disclaimer at the bottom of the post if you're affiliated with the recommendation.
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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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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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What's Wero?
Had to look it up myself
Wero is a European mobile payment system that should replace Giropay in Germany, Paylib in France,[1] Payconiq in Belgium[2] and Luxembourg, and iDEAL in the Netherlands. The service was launched on 2 July 2024 by the European Payments Initiative.[3] The service competes with PayPal, credit cards and similar services. It started as a real-time payment system in 2024, and from summer 2025 extended online payment functions were added on a step-by-step basis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wero_%28payment%29
Looks like it's an effort to standardise all the local versions of the same payment systems, which seem to be P2P mobile money transfer and payment systems
It's a payment method to send/receive money between individuals. Starting 2026, it will be possible to pay at businesses scanning a QR-code.
It's similar to what you can see in Asia, Pix in Brasil, etc.
And Switzerland ๐ it is called twint over here
Should be nationalized and transformed on the Pix model.
I have the same question!
Not sure why you were being down voted, but we have answers now. Check replies to my comment. ๐
Yea I saw, but thanks for notifying! I get downvotes from time to time for no reason.
~~Reddit~~ Lemmy being ~~Reddit~~ Lemmy.
I have the same question!
I'd love to try it, but a couple weeks ago, Revolut stopped working on my phone with a custom ROM. Now my entire account is pretty much useless. At least the app still works on my old phone which is running the same custom OS, so I can pull my funds and then ditch Revolut.
Have you reported it to them? Threaten to leave because of it, maybe they budge
Maybe I should, yeah.
Edit: Oh nice, they also barred my old phone.
I've used Wero now a couple of times to transfer money to friends and relatives, and I found it to be very practical and fast. I hope it gains traction.
Got to wonder what they are expecting to gain from you creating an account, must be worth more than โฌ70
Probably banking on new users forking out for one of the premium tiers. There's a lot of flavours, I'm happy with the basic.
They probably get a cut from the money you spend paying with Revolut.
Is this available to Americans? Like those who are disillusioned with most big corps that have monopolies so it's either eat shit or use their services/products.
No, Wero is Europe only. It's based on SEPA instant payments which are not supported outside of the EU. It may be in the future, but as of now it isn't
So... Bizum? Idk if it exists outside Spain
Yes, Bizum will eventually be replaced by Wero. At least that's the plan. As of right now almost every EU country has it's own instant layment system. Wero aims at replacing and unifying all of them so that you can use instant payments in other EU countries as well.
I believe the spanish banks were part of the initial launch, but dipped out last minute for whatever reason. But I'm pretty sure, once it takes off in Germany and France, Spain will follow shortly after.
Poob has it for you.