Buy European

The companies below have proven to be reputable and worth supporting.

Spotify

Pays artists $0.0003 per play

Shows ICE ads

Says something about see deep dive for disclaimer, but I don’t see a link in the post body. But interested to see what’s on there.

Edit: found the link

Warning

They pay significantly less royalties, promote AI music, and platform podcasters who spread misinformation - context: https://t.ly/spotify-history. They do offer a superior service, but some people choose not to support them for these reasons.

Yeah so, that doesn’t align with “reputable” and “worth supporting”.

I would add Librewolf in the browsers and Searx in the search engines.

Honestly if you have to put american things in the change columns then swap spotify and youtube music, spotify is just soo bad

I appreciate the transparency in this post but I find it odd there are so many American/Canadian options in the change to column.

I got to the bottom of the image and Lemmy and Piefed not even on there, ha wtf. I’d add Migadu for email and Kagi for search, both very good value.

Why is there no section for alternatives to reddit? We should really push more people into the fediverse.

Vivaldi Mail beats Proton and Tuta because Vivaldi strongly opposes cryptocurrencies / pyramid schemes, the others support it.

Dude, where has libro.fm been?! That's the type of thing I have been looking for recently. DRM free downloads and a portion of sales supporting a local store.

The guide doesn't say what greyed out means. I thought it was for american companies but there are canadian, australian, and eu things greyed out too.

How about startmail for email from the Netherlands

Thanks @ooli3@sopuli.xyz for sharing my guide. Below is the text that followed the original.

I shared a version of this guide earlier this year, but felt a website was needed to unpack the different options fully. So after an unreasonable number of hours, I put together the necessary data and website.

I hope this is digestible enough for the average person to help those looking to take that first step, or for people who are equally passionate and want to get their friends or family involved.

Details:

• Site - https://purchasewithpurpose.eu/
• Code - https://codeberg.org/purchase-with-purpose/pwp-website
• Community - https://lemmy.world/c/PurchaseWithPurpose

Every time I post these guides, there is always feedback on things that can improve, or I got wrong. Please do share, as it is the best way for these to evolve!

I see there are several comments! I'll go through it now and respond.

Okay, one questian. What about mega.io? I never see anyone talking about them, neither negatively or positively. Are they ok for folk around here, non-foss aside?

Another paid search option is Metager - since Mullvads Leta shut down, i looked for something to switch to and Metager fits the bill: no tracking shit, no ads, a good search with working blacklists, and a configurable cost for the search depending on which indexes you want to use and if you want to use search suggestions. It also taught me to use search shortcuts which i was too lazy to use before - no need to use my tokens when i know i want a wikipedia result.

Anyone tried https://www.navidrome.org/ for self hosted music streaming? Haven't yet myself

KAGI use russian yandex index.

I've recently switched to Vivaldi on Android because Firefox was constantly just janky for me. Now I'm testing it on Linux too, the included email client is a great perk. Too bad it is not fully open source (the UI stuff is proprietary).

How about startmail for email from the Netherlands

Pop_OS I not very good at gaming. Try looking into Gardua Linux and Bazzite as they have more modern packages and faster driver updates.

i was a big fan of flickr before they got bought by yahoo and enshittified

Amazing guide!

friends don't let friends use storytel.

I like using fedora over Ubuntu, seems more stable and gets updated sooner. Idk about the politics of it though.

For Linux, there's also Arch if you know what are you doing. Manjaro might be a good first step into the Arch ecosystem, even if there are obvious differences, as Manjaro is a different distro, not just a (poorly) preconfigured Arch installation line Omarchy.

Does anyone have any experience with Zeitkapsl? I switched to Ente almost a year ago and am generally happy with them, but I'd rather support a European company if they're offering more or less the same solution.