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:
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- 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
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Man wish would could have something like that here in America.
I don't think anything would prevent a site from accepting digital euros from everyone. If you're in the us, your local grocery store is perfectly free to accept any currency they want, and you're free to spend any currency you want. If you and your local grocery store agree on it then it's perfectly legal for you to buy an avocado from them for 1 euro.
Yeah, the law just says that you must accept US currency for debts owed. Doesn't say you have to accept it for everything.
Yeah by law you must accept us dollars, but you're allowed to accept anything else you want in addition
Only for debts owed. That's how stores can say they only accept credit card. If you're just buying something, a store can refuse US currency.
The federal reserve disagrees with you. https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12772.htm
When you want to buy something, that isn't a debt. It's only a debt if you already own the thing and haven't paid for it yet, so the law about accepting dollars in payment for debt doesn't apply.
We do. It's called Crypto. That's all the digital Euro is. The problem is: through propaganda every American has been taught to hate crypto the same as democracy, socialism, and themselves.
Because those things would dramatically make American life better if they actually learned about them and implemented any of it correctly. Instead, most Americans convince themselves they know enough from social media about Crypto to down vote me.
Capitalism works because of the entrenched banking and fed system. Crypto doesn't use any of that, and can't be captured. That's why Europe is adopting it. It's less fraudulent than the current system that let's you 2008 mortgage crisis anything you want with no repurcussion.
We could be using it too. But that scares the people with all the money in this corrupt system, so they use a lot of that money to convince you Crypto is for crime, while ignoring all the dollars used by drug and human trafficking cartels.
Bitcoin has risen in value from 2009 to now more than any other asset on the planet. Yet most here have been taught to believe that's from crime instead of utility.
Europe isn't quite that propaganda'd yet, so is adopting this tech first, and like the Euro with definitley be the first to benefit from it.