Overview:
The community to discuss buying European goods and services.
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:
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No russian suggestions.
Feddit.uk's instance rules apply:
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
Lemmy:
Basque Country: https://lemmy.eus/
๐ง๐ช Belgium: https://0d.gs/
๐ง๐ฌ Bulgaria: https://feddit.bg/
Catalonia: https://lemmy.cat/
๐ฉ๐ฐ Denmark, including Greenland (for now): https://feddit.dk/
๐ช๐บ Europe: https://europe.pub/
๐ซ๐ท๐ง๐ช๐จ๐ญ France, Belgium, Switzerland: https://jlai.lu/
๐ฉ๐ช๐ฆ๐น๐จ๐ญ๐ฑ๐ฎ Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Lichtenstein: https://feddit.org/
๐ซ๐ฎ Finland: https://sopuli.xyz/ & https://suppo.fi/
๐ฎ๐ธ Iceland: https://feddit.is/
๐ฎ๐น Italy: https://feddit.it/
๐ฑ๐น Lithuania: https://group.lt/
๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands: https://feddit.nl/
๐ต๐ฑ Poland: https://fedit.pl/ & https://szmer.info/
๐ต๐น Portugal: https://lemmy.pt/
๐ธ๐ฎ Slovenia: https://gregtech.eu/
๐ธ๐ช Sweden: https://feddit.nu/
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/
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, envs.net, 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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Still no lemmy lol
The creator mods [email protected] , as you can see on the footer
Yeah, saw that. Just think it's funny they have it in the footer but not in the graph
i'd love to see maybe weekly threads where people share their opinion on certain categories. like email, hosting, domain, etc
Feel free to create them!
This community ([email protected]) isn't really used for anything else so the previous posts about specific topics are easy to see. They don't necessarily have many comments but it might help you find other places these images posted to.
It's too bad there are so many communities where this stuff is posted to, real downside of federated content if you ask me because it's so easy to miss content added in the comment of a duplicate post you never see.
I always advocate for consolidating [email protected] and [email protected] to [email protected] , but the mods of those two communities aren't open to the idea
Too bad, i'd be in favor as well. Even if two of them consolidate that would be a step in the right direction.
Why shall the to europe consolidate into feddit.uk (uk is not member of eu anymore) Why not the other way around?
But yes, itโs difficult to distinguish or choose between and follow the duplicates.
As an alternative to Google Docs / Office, "Docs" by the French ๐ซ๐ท(DINUM) and German ๐ฉ๐ช governments (ZenDiS) is missing: https://docs.numerique.gouv.fr/
It's Open Source, Self-hostable and European + it looks very polished ;)
Hope they'll do a spreadsheet app too eventually
They are :) https://www.beta.gouv.fr/startups/grist.numerique.gouv.fr.html
Although this one is still at an earlier stage. You can see how theyโre planning it out and who might develop it (only in French).
Nice. My french isn't that good, but if I understand correctly they are constructing it right now :))
En quelques dates Investigation 15 mars 2024
Construction 1er septembre 2024
They investigated in march 2024 and are building it since september 2024
I think Mojeek was missed for free search engines.
Yacy. P2P search engine. Well can used local only too. Crawl the web at your own.
Do you use this? It looks amazing, but almost too good to be true.
I set it up on my Raspberry and run it locally in island mode. So I use it separately from duckduckgo. The quality of the results depends on which mode you use and what you are crawling You can set rules etc. for the search results or their sorting, but I haven't dealt with that, but it looks powerful in terms of scope. The tasks for crawling can also be set very precisely, including how much hardware resources can be made available for usage and much more. You can also set when and whether these are repeated. With the depth, the whole thing can quickly take on extreme proportions and should not be exaggerated. As I don't surf the web that much, I have relatively few sources. If I don't find anything and have to use DDG, I take the domain from the best result and create a new crawl task and then start it. It is definitely worth a look. If you really want to, you can definitely host a powerful search engine yourself.
Thanks, I'm going to have to think about this.
I miss librewolf
How good is Proton as a paid all-in-one solution for e-mail, calendar, and cloud storage?
Use it for years and have nothing to complain about. Well, if you have a custom domain with รค,รถ, or รผ then it gets translated into gibberish. Still works but doesn't look pretty.
E-Mail app works as expected. I receive mails and can send them but I'm not a power user who expect any great features.
Calendar works as well. Share it with other proton user and also with an external person. The external can't create events for us in the shared calendar but that wasn't a problem so far, i just did it when we had an event.
Cloud storage is fine too. I don't use the desktop client but I know there is one for Windows. The upload in the Browser works well and sharing files or folders with externals works with an easy link as you might know it from Google drive.
VPN is also as expected. Huge range of IP's so you will always find one which isn't banned by your streaming service or other website. Hadn't any leaks yet while torrenting.
Hadn't any contact with the support since setting it up but then it was fast and helpful as far as i remember. As Visonary account i got the priority support so I can't say how representative that is for the regular support.
Technically speaking, it's good. But 2 questions:
Do you need end-to-end encrypted emails and cloud storage?
If not, you may find cheaper alternatives (if cost is a thing for you). :)
What would be those alternatives? My main point would be to get away from microsoft with my mail and a somewhat sizable cloud storage (0,5-1 TB).
What about kSuite? Are they better?
@VolumetricShitCompressor @Blaze honestly even just the android email client is somewhat slow, and doesn't allow downloading emails to save them locally AFAIK. I respect the whole encryption thing, and I know we're comparing to enshittified services, but there has to be something better out there.
Edit: see below maybe this will improve in the next couple of months.
@VolumetricShitCompressor @Blaze Also, Andy Yen made some comments in support of MAGA, so that's not great.
@VolumetricShitCompressor What kills it for me is the lack of IMAP/POP/SMTP support. I realise this is at odds with the E2E encryption, but honestly I find that portability more valuable than E2E. E2E in email is kinda overrated unless both parties are using PGP or something I think, and even then it's not necessary on a provider level.
I would also look into allegations of the creator supporting Trump before considering it again (saying this neutrally as I haven't verified it myself yet).
Does this mean that I can't integrate their mal addresses into existing mail/calendar apps? I already have to have an ms exchange account that I must not use via outlook app, ao I have already two calendar widgets since my private outlook address stopped working on gmail. State of tech in 2025 smh
@VolumetricShitCompressor When I was looking into it the other day, that's what it seemed like to me. Goes for both them and tuta (the two most popular EU alternatives), and seems to be a direct consequence of their privacy focus.
IDK Floorp, and I have limited experience w/Zen.
I have tested and used every other one on your list.
They are all pretty good, considering the current state of the Internet.
My daily drivers are Librewolf and Vivaldi.
Bruce Schneier says Vivaldi is secure enough for him.
Proton shouldn't be recommended. CEO is a Trump supporter.
Is there any browser with account and synchronization - but decentralized? Even just saving local files so I can sync a folder.