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maam@feddit.ukM to Buy European@feddit.ukEnglish · 6 days ago

Enough with american companies siphoning off the profits!

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Enough with american companies siphoning off the profits!

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maam@feddit.ukM to Buy European@feddit.ukEnglish · 6 days ago
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    Are there any up and coming alternates that someone in the US can use? Would love to support something beyond visa/mastercard. Or Paypal/google pay, etc. Wero not yet accessible, Taler seems to have no providers yet?

    • maam@feddit.ukOPM
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      Use as much cash as possible.

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        I try my best, but always worth mentioning!

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      +1 for this

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      UnionPay is emerging

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        Thank you! I dont knoe if UnionPay would be better, but I did not know about it, so thank you for mentioning it!

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        That’s not new

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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:

    • !europe@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    • !europeanfederalists@lemmy.world
    • !YUROP@feddit.org
    • !casualeurope@piefed.social

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  • No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia or xenophobia.
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  • No harassment, dogpiling or doxxing of other users.
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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.
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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)

Benefits of Buying Local:

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

European Instances

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  • 🇬🇧 UK: https://feddit.uk/

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  • 🇩🇪 Germany: https://piratenpartei.social/ & https://anonsys.net/

  • 🇫🇷 Significant French speaking userbase: https://social.trom.tf/

  • 🇵🇱 Poland: soc.citizen4.eu

Matrix:

  • 🇬🇧 UK: matrix.org & glasgow.social

  • 🇫🇷 France: tendomium & imagisphe.re & hadoly.fr

  • 🇩🇪 Germany: tchncs.de, catgirl.cloud, pub.solar, yatrix.org, digitalprivacy.diy, oblak.be, nope.chat, envs.net, hot-chilli.im, synod.im & rollenspiel.chat

  • 🇳🇱 Netherlands: bark.lgbt

  • 🇦🇹 Austria: gemeinsam.jetzt & private.coffee

  • 🇫🇮 Finland: pikaviestin.fi & chat.blahaj.zone

Related Communities:

Buy Local:

Continents:

  • !buycanadian@lemmy.ca

  • !buyoceanian@quokk.au

  • !buysouthamerican@lemmy.eco.br

  • !buyasian@lemmy.funami.tech

  • !buyafrican@baraza.africa

  • !buyantarctican@feddit.cl

European:

  • !buybritish@feddit.uk

  • !buyfromeu@feddit.org

  • !buyfromeu@europe.pub

Buying and Selling:
  • !flohmarkt@lemmy.ca
Boycott:

Countries:

  • !boycottus@lemmy.ca

  • !boycottchina@sopuli.xyz

Companies:

  • !degoogle@lemmy.ca

  • !deapple@piefed.social

  • !demeta@programming.dev

  • !demicrosoft@programming.dev

  • !deamazon@piefed.social

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