this post was submitted on 09 Jan 2026
93 points (100.0% liked)

Buy European

8091 readers
373 users here now

Overview:

The community to discuss buying European goods and services.

Matrix Chat of this community

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

Benefits of Buying Local:

local investment, job creation, innovation, increased competition, more redundancy.

European Instances

Lemmy:

Friendica:

Matrix:

Related Communities:

Buy Local:

Continents:

European:

Buying and Selling:

Boycott:

Countries:

Companies:

Stop Publisher Kill Switch in Games Practice:

Banner credits: BYTEAlliance

founded 11 months ago
MODERATORS
maam@feddit.uk
alex@jlai.lu
circledot@feddit.org
Argyle13@lemmy.world
buyeuropean@lemmy.ca
buyeuropean@feddit.org
Lazycog@sopuli.xyz
meldrik@lemmy.wtf
Sunshine@piefed.ca
Kjell@lemmy.world
93
French-U.K. Starlink rival pitches Canada on 'sovereign' satellite service for Arctic military operations (www.cbc.ca)
submitted 1 week ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
6 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

They need funding and the world needs an alternative to American (fascist billionaire owned to boot) retail satellite internet. Starlink has absolutely cornered the market and Kuiper isnโ€™t going to be any less under the boot. Hopefully Canada takes a serious look at it.

[โ€“] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

People (especially Canadians) have this misguided idea that Canada is somehow "small potatoes", when we're something like the 10th largest economy in the world, with a powerful portfolio of natural resources, energy resources, strong research and development capabilities and a well-educated workforce. Just because we're not a rival to the US or China on our own doesn't mean we don't have the potential to make a serious impact on the world stage and the world economy, especially if we can leverage some of our unique advantages when we start deeply cooperating and allying ourselves with some of the other top 10 economies in the world. There are some pretty significant opportunities here.

We need to start acting like we're one of the 10th largest economies in the world in our own right, and not the US's pet mini-me. The US isn't going to like it, and I'm not going to pretend there won't be economic retaliation (and maybe more) but we need to do it anyway. The US is nobody's friend anymore, least of all ours.