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.
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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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๐ฎ๐น Italy: https://feddit.it/
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๐ฑ๐น Lithuania: https://group.lt/
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๐ฑ๐บ Luxembourg https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/
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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, 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:
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Continents:
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Countries:
Companies:
Stop Publisher Kill Switch in Games Practice:
Banner credits: BYTEAlliance
This year the PayPal alternative Bluecode is supposed to launch! I'm keeping an eye on that. Otherwise I do a lot of payments by prepayment or (advance) invoice. So it just goes through my bank account directly.
Paying online, especially to small vendors
What I have recently been fond of is paying by invoice. I will pay only once I open the package and find the invoice inside via bank transfer. Zero American companies (Paypal, Visa, Mastercard...) are involved this way.
The only drawback is that you have to remember paying and that some online stores - though usually the larger one's - don't support it.
I haven't used any yet and still have PayPal, but would also be interested in migrating to a European one.
Some possible options may be Skrill or Wise? I believe both are based in the UK and available internationally.
Wise processes through Visa, a US company. That makes them as "EU alternative" as your bank's card.
Wait, how do SEPA transfers go through Visa? Do you just mean the card payments?
Ah. Well, I'll be closing that account, then... What about Skrill?
I typically use Wise for foreign transfers. Would that still use Visa? If so, any non US backed alternatives? I typically transfer from Canada to family and personal bank accounts in the UK.
I don't think your use for Wise uses Visa, as Visa is a card company. If you use Wise for card payments, those go through Visa.
Wise is about the only mainstream way to get funds in Canadian or American domestic payment systems and immediately get that money into the European banking network that I know of. Revolut only gives me Swift details for USD, not wire or ACH routing numbers.
In Poland we have instant payments called Blik! Go check it out.
There is quite a consensus that c24 is the best bank. You get virtual cards for online pay and can send instant transfers for free.
There base model which is totally sufficient is free.
I'd avoid Klarna if you're opposed to all humans getting automated.
They rely heavily on OpenAi.
N26 reminds me of N64 so i should go with that one.
You literally introduced me to all of these things....
Unfortunately, during my research, it seems like N26 is the worst option. Not only is it supported/funded by Peter Thiel and other American oligarchs, and it has a shady history Source (in German)
Okay so that's a terrible way to make a decision then