this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2025
17 points (94.7% liked)

Buy European

6760 readers
312 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 6 months ago
MODERATORS
 

That requires a lot effort to get started on like the training of workers and the construction of capacity.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] masterspace@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Computer chip manufacturing.

Taiwan, South Korea, and China are literally the only countries with any experience in production.

[โ€“] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, I mean, Germany alone has GlobalFoundries, Infineon and Bosch (among others), but sure...

[โ€“] masterspace@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Fine, advanced chip manufacturing. Germany's best plants can produce literally nowhere near the 4nm chips that the likes of TSMC can. And shrinking in size is both exponentially harder and more valuable for an information processing chip at anywhere near that scale.

load more comments (2 replies)