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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)
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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/
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๐ฎ๐น Italy: https://feddit.it/
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๐ฑ๐บ Luxembourg https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/
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๐ต๐ฑ Poland: https://fedit.pl/ & https://szmer.info/
๐ต๐น Portugal: https://lemmy.pt/
๐ธ๐ฎ Slovenia: https://gregtech.eu/
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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
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Some of these recommendations are kinda wack...
BlueSky but no mention of Mastodon?
Deezer is primarily owned by an American investment fund
Tuta is actively enshittifying
ReVanced is still YouTube you're just adding a middleman
HERE WeGo's website doesn't even load atm but where is OpenStreetMap and its thousands of frontends?
I agree with all of those remarks except the last because the here we go app imo is the best google maps replacement
What does it do different?
what is wrong with Tuta tho? ive not experienced anything bad yet
copy pasted
Every once in a while theyโll send you an email with special CSS styling so you canโt avoid seeing it and you canโt unsubscribe from it. They call it a newsletter. Itโs advertising. Itโs less news and more begging you to buy more of their stuff. Very occasionally theyโll bump new features onto a higher tier but still show that feature in your UI, with special CSS styling. God forbid if they try to upgrade your account but you deny because youโre happy with the features you have now and the amount you pay; they push harder and harder the longer youโre on a โlegacyโ tier.
It happened to me. Itโll happen to you.
Don't use HERE WeGo. Jus another for-profit company with closed-source maps. Use OrganicMaps. It's based on Open-Street-Maps.
Is there anyone offering a Waze alternative though? OrganicMaps is offline first and privacy focused which is not something I'm looking for in my navigation app.
I need live traffic and speed controls and so on. Haven't found an alternative yet :(
Only just started using it, but Mullvad has open the doors to their new search engine.
It pulls results from Google.
Mullvad Leta uses the Google Search API as a proxy, caching each search. These cached results are shared amongst all users, reducing costs and improving privacy. This service is user-supported and doesn't rely on ads or data selling.
Our browser extension simplifies access. Once your account number is set in the settings, there's no need to log in each time. To protect against correlation attacks and manage costs, searches are cached for 30 days, possibly resulting in slightly outdated results.
Bluesky is just twitter 2.0, Mastodon is the better alternative
Deezer is mostly owned by American funds, go on Quobuz instead !
I've heard them over and over but I will not join anyone who wants my credit card information before telling me what music is actually available.
They are a no go for me just because of this behavior.
fair enough
nah i didnt know about the deezer thing. im gonna try to use soundcloud instead. Qobuz costs a bit too much imo
How do you make that list?
I took the original image and edited it using GIMP
Oh I see:) I wanted to make one and thought that maybe theres a site to make one
i wish hahah, wouldve been easier. and if there is idk what the name is
I was hoping for an uber alternative with bolt and thought it looked interesting...
https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/570434/#trackers
Nice, thanks !