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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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:
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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.
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
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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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๐ฉ๐ช๐ฆ๐น๐จ๐ญ๐ฑ๐ฎ Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Lichtenstein: https://feddit.org/
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๐ซ๐ฎ Finland: https://sopuli.xyz/ & https://suppo.fi/
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๐ฎ๐ธ Iceland: https://feddit.is/
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๐ฎ๐น Italy: https://feddit.it/
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๐ฑ๐น Lithuania: https://group.lt/
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๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands: https://feddit.nl/
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๐ต๐ฑ Poland: https://fedit.pl/ & https://szmer.info/
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๐ต๐น Portugal: https://lemmy.pt/
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๐ธ๐ฎ Slovenia: https://gregtech.eu/
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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
Related Communities:
Buy Local:
Continents:
European:
Buying and Selling:
Boycott:
Countries:
Companies:
Stop Publisher Kill Switch in Games Practice:
Banner credits: BYTEAlliance
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Actually just got here based on that post. Knew about the fediverse before, but was hesitant to take the plunge
Once you populate your homepage with the right communities (and block all the furries/tankies) you'll love it here
Or add additional furries because theyโre mostly just silly little guys.
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It depends on how furry is the subject. I have seen some furry exchanges that are uncomprehensible.
Just block the fascists and you're good to go, tbh. The tankies are a very small community here.
Furries are pretty wholesome -- whether they and queer people are there, I use as a miner's canary to see if a place has a welcoming and chill atmosphere.
People can like what they want, I just dont personally enjoy seeing that myself. In my experience I havent seen any fascists, just Authoritarian advocates.
Sure, people can like what they want. Though I don't think we should encourage inaction against the far right. Unfortunately, I've seen a few, but indeed very few. Personally I feel divided on tankies, but in my perspective, the greater foe is the fascist. That said: AAAB (All Authoritarians Are Bastards), and if we can combat both effectively, then great!
But also, to put it as a metaphor. If I had to pick my battles -- and had three bullets, and there were a fascist and a tankie in the room with me, I'd shoot the fascist immediately, and keep two to safeguard against tankies - so that if I shot, I still have a credible threat afterward.
A tankie is an ally against a fascist, and can turn into a fiend - so let us make sure that they have to stay our friend. And while they are our friend, then let us treat them with at least kindness. They don't need to like us and we don't need to like them; but we need to band together against the storm.
Welcome To Lemmy! (Immediately starts bickering over the various pros and cons of furry vs. tankie)
Furries have a very strong association with far right movements.
Far right movements, if anything, want to kill furries. Press X to doubt.
Burying one's head in the sand will surely help the movement get rid of neonazis. It works all the time! quo vadis USA?
Thanks, working my way through that now
One thing you'll see here is that it's a lot more human than Reddit. People here are wayyyy more willing to ask questions and understand instead instead of just assuming. People here are also more willing to actually provide links and supporting documentation.
Of course, I'm not saying that always makes people right, but people are also more willing to accept when they're mistaken and also give people the benefit of the doubt.
It's a breath of fresh air on the internet.
Yeah, me too. I was getting tired of the Reddit bubble I have been pushed in to for a while now. This here is such a refreshment...
Welcome!
Bob Dylan once proclaimed that who is not busy being born is busy dying. You'll probably find us busy being born over here, but I consider that to be a good thing. We're very happy to have you here helping us out with it. :)
Welcome! Most of us came over during the Reddit API fiasco a couple years ago. It's a lot nicer here. You'll notice the difference the more you post or comment. It's not like screaming into the void, like you get on Reddit.
My best newbie tip is to use https://lemmyverse.net/ to find new communities.
Just set your home instance (in your case lemmy.world) with the house icon and all links will refer you to the right place for you.
Discoverimg new stuff isn't always straight forward, but lemmyverse.net makes it a little easier.
Then there are communities for promoting other new communities as well.
Have fun, amd welcome!
Brand new to Piefed here - i'm clueless about what you're suggesting here. Why is there no piefed-app, and why do i need to use another service to make Piefed useful?
I feel like everytime there's a european alternative to anything, it's always unnecesarily complex and extremely unintuitive..
You don't need the other service. I personally strongly oppose pitching stuff about federation and so on (this is something for a user to look into if they are interested).
If you are looking for communities, click the all Communities -> All Communities button:
https://piefed.social/communities
And then type a keyword to find a community.
Voyager works for mobile:
https://f-droid.org/packages/app.vger.voyager/
You can also just use the mobile website (that's what I prefer).
If you have any questions, just post them here:
https://piefed.social/c/piefed_help
PieFed also solves this natively better than Lemmy, so people coming in from Lemmy tends to give advice that is not all that useful for PieFed users.
Piefed is much newer so the clients don't have the support they have with Lemmy.
Thank you for the suggestion, will definitely check that out!
Highly recommend lemmy. Yes, it doesnโt have all the communities that Reddit has and engagement isnโt as high, but its general content is overall good and it doesnโt feel littered with bots and spam like Reddit. Itโs also much easier to access than it was when it first came out and the available clients are light years better than the garbage Reddit app.
So, I have Lemmy now and just made an account on PieFed. I donยดt want to use multiple platforms. What would you suggest? Can I synch them?
Lemmy and Piefed communicate with each other natively. You'll find people talking about Lemmy here because they are on Lemmy, and most of them won't even realize that you are not. It doesn't matter that you are not, as we communicate across the platforms just fine.
One of our greatest challenges is that we don't have a good umbrella term to refer to all of us. But I guess that's not such a tragic problem.
In either case, no further action needed on your part.
Welcome!
You only need one platform, it's like email, you use the provider you like the most.
Yeah, this is part of what had me a bit confused. I'm on lemmy, and in addition there're different apps/readers for different instances? I just downloaded the top choice from the app store (Boost for lemmy). But they all talk to each other? And as far as I understood, you can also interact with for instance Mastodon which is an alternative to Twitter?
Welcome to Lemmy ๐
Most of the apps support both lemmy and piefed and you can browse all instances. You dont have to configure anything. I recommend Voyager for android/ios which currently im using rn. If you have iphone u can try mlem as well.
In short, every Lemmy instance holds a complete copy of the full post and comment history of every user of every other website on the lemmy/mastodon network. Every post and comment you make is first copied locally and then sent to the other sites for their own local copy.
Itโs more resource intensive to have all of these separate sites, but it ensures that if one falls, another can take its place basically instantly. Redundancy means lemmy is incredibly sturdy with effectively 99.99% uptime. Your site might go down, but just change the url and youโre back. Albeit with a new account to make. Though I havenโt had to swap sites at this point, and itโs not a common occurrence
We're glad you're safe now!
Thank you, happy to be here!
Welcome, I've been here two years and it's been great. At first you might miss some content but that's just your dopamine receptors resetting from the slot machine effect of reddit.
The "algorithms" here are simple and honest and all the Russian/Chinese bots are on lemmy.ml. Be careful though, you might end up switching to Linux if you stay here (which I recommend).
Outstanding choice.
Just keep in mind, the instances are all made up, you can see everything from everywhere and if you don't like limits or administration on one instance, you can always move to another.
Welcome!
This place is not quite as active as Reddit, simply by virtue of the userbase being a lot smaller. But I've quite enjoyed the past three years I've been on this platform.
My first recommendation would be to subscribe to some communities (equivalent to subreddits) you are interested in.
The main communities are mostly covered, but if they are particularly niche they might either be rather quiet or simply don't exist yet. At that point the only real way is to get them going is to contribute yourself.
Also, small piece of potentially unsolicited advice:
spoiler
If a community is hosted on a domain that ends in .ml, they are likely a "Marxist-Leninist" (authoritarian communist, aka "tankie") community. The same holds for individual users.The moderation in tankie communities (e.g. lemmy.ml) is generally not very great, in my experience.
They tend to not be particularly accepting of any criticism of their beliefs, so these places tend to turn into an echo chamber.
Personally I blocked lemmy.ml, and the overall Lemmy experience has been better for it.
Enjoy your stay :)
Ah alright, thanks for the heads-up! :)
Welcome!
It takes a bit of fiddling and customization to get your blocklists and filters set up, but thatโs true to a lesser degree for Reddit anyways. Thereโs tons of people that should be willing to point you in the right directions, though, should you have questions.