I dropped:
- 1password
- NordVPN
- Gmail
- Google Drive
- Google Docs
- Claude
And replaced all of them with a Proton family subscription. Amazing change tbh, highly recommend it.
this post was submitted on 24 Feb 2026
113 points (96.7% liked)
Buy European
9840 readers
588 users here now
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.
-
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
-
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/
-
๐จ๐ฟCzech Republic https://lemmings.world/
-
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/
-
๐ฎ๐น Italy: https://feddit.it/
-
๐ฑ๐น Lithuania: https://group.lt/
-
๐ฑ๐บ Luxembourg https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/
-
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, hot-chilli.im, synod.im & rollenspiel.chat
-
๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands: bark.lgbt
-
๐ฆ๐น Austria: gemeinsam.jetzt & private.coffee
-
๐ซ๐ฎ Finland: pikaviestin.fi & chat.blahaj.zone
Related Communities:
Buy Local:
Continents:
European:
Buying and Selling:
Boycott:
Countries:
Companies:
Stop Publisher Kill Switch in Games Practice:
Banner credits: BYTEAlliance
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Only problem that i have with proton is that i dont wanna bet on 1 horse alone in case anything happens
Exactly, it gives them too much market power. The problem with big American tech is not that itโs American. Itโs that it has too much market power preventing competition - also through law. So the solution is not to repeat the same mistake in Europe.
I ditched my iPhone for a Fairphone 6 with /e/OS. That was over six months ago now, but I'm still very happy about the switch!
Also bought some new winter boots last week. Swedish brand (Sneaky Steve), produced in Portugal.
Well, I left reddit and now I am here.
Well done! Rather donate some money to your instance, instead of paying with your data.
I just moved as well.
I payed for a third party app to browse Reddit. Immediately after moving I ended that and started a recurring payment to piefed and summit for a little bit more in total.
Me too I didnโt know there was a Reddit alternative, so I was using RSS feedsโthen someone mentioned Lemmy in a comment, so here I am. Now I just need to wipe out Visa, and my boycott will be complete
Me too! Hello!
Tbh: while I try to use/buy European products where I can, sometimes it's not practical (for lack of European manufacturers in a certain sector) or can't be attributed properly (because some products, such as free software, do not have a fixed "origin"). A lot of what I do can be more broadly described as "flipping off fascism", i.e. adopting products that are produced in democracies or compatible with democratic values.
Given this broad definition, here's a brief run-down of my 2025:
- immediate termination of Amazon account in early '25 and switch to Galaxus (Swiss), among other European online shops.
- bought Toshiba HDDs (JP) instead of my usual WDs and Seagates (both U.S.)
- switched about a dozen people and a company over to Linux (Mint)
- expanded homelab services to allow others to ditch big tech offers.
- growing determination and courage in others to switch away from harmful and/or hostile services, leading to the termination of several paid big tech subscriptions.
load more comments
(5 replies)
Bought clothes made in Portugal.
I bought a pair of Mustangs (German brand) instead of buying new Converses, and I'm very pleased by them.
A small win, but still a win.
Not as admirable but for the last year or so I have, when necessary, replaced my Nike sports gear with Adidas.
I mention it ready for someone to say they're American also :)
Switched from Tidal to Qobuz.
I have a Proton Unlimited subscription which has replaced Gmail, Google Drive, Google Calendar, and Express VPN. Proton is a fantastic company. Definitely worth the money.
Bit by bit moving everything off Google Docs and into CryptPad.
I ditched Gmail for protonmail
Ditched Bridgstone and got some Mitas enduro trail+ for my bike.
Left Amazon a while ago, which is a big win.
But for special items, I kept ebay. It's funny though, that some deliveries from ebay came with an Amazon packaging...
With Wero I hope, I can ditch Paypal soon.
I buy from onbuy, where possible, instead of ebay. Or direct from the selling company if I cab find it.
Lots of people put up the same products on every available marketplace, and they fulfill their orders with Amazon because it's easier to ship everything Fulfilled By Amazon.
You buy on ebay, they buy from themselves on Amazon and drop ship it to you via FBA.
load more comments
(2 replies)
Having two of my banks use wero (which is now a total of 3 banks)
And finally having switched from winblows to a german-ish Linux (cachyos). As a German it doubled in win ๐
I just installed Ubuntu on my mom's laptop. I also considered Mint, but Ubuntu seems to me to be the distribution with the least risk of any major issues.
Either way, the point was to finally get away from Windows, especially since my mom doesn't use any applications for which there isn't a reliable Linux alternative anyway.
Donations to LibreOffice and so on have also been transferred - in the amount of the license costs for Windows 11 and MS Office for now.
Setup koofr on my gf's laptop recently so that we can use that for sharing documents
I set up a self hosted nextcloud on my homeserver
I am migrating my data from onedrive to nextcloud.
Finally set up email forwarding from my gmail to my proton account (since I already pay for the vpn)
Just an hour ago I created a Proton account and transferred and redirected my gmail to it.
This is going to be a loong process transferring our family drive over. And I'm sure there will be some change resistance inside the family.
Just set up a mailbox account.
Before this it was probably some plus12 socks.
I'm replacing my old and battered Marshal headphones with some Repeat ones (repeat.audio) from the Netherlands. Also opened an account (Standard) with Mailbox.org, quite pleased. Currently analyzing/considering moving from Spotify to Qobuz.
load more comments
(5 replies)
bought a secrid wallet (Netherlands) and a silpat oven sheet (France) very pleased with both
wait, Secrid is Dutch?
Switched our companyโs Backup from Backblaze to Infomaniak (swiss). In addition to simple backup we really enjoy the cloud features for team collaboration (ksuite). Turns out that they offer excellent Email service as well (they offer a super essy email import tool, so the move of all coworkerโs emails was a breeze). And all that for less than what we paid at Backblaze for just backup. Best decision ever.
Dropped Google drive in favour of Filen
A pair of locking pliers from Parkside. My brain defaults to aliexpress or amazon, but checked Lidl as they tend to have ok tools at ok price.
will try on the weekend, already look better and cheaper than anything in amazon.
Parkside has serious quality, in general Lidl products have unbeatable quality/price ratios.
reMarkable, E Ink writing tablet.
It has a pressure sensitive marker that you can draw with like a wacom tablet, runs a Linux os you can ssh into and do tons of custom stuff with... It's just wonderful.
I switched my carrier from T-Mobile to Orange.
IIRC T-Mobile US is still part of the German Telekom
Borght an Italien made coffee grinder from Eurika instead of American/Chinese made Ode one grinder. Been very happy with its performance
view more: next โบ