this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2025
14 points (85.0% 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
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] Szewek@sopuli.xyz 15 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Do we want tech giants, though?

[โ€“] the_swagmaster@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 days ago

We don't want giants but we want companies that can compete with the giants across all markets. That way users have more choice, competition makes products better, and Europe can actually stand on its own two feet where required

[โ€“] DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Probably not all they do is try to monopolize something then enshittification of whatever they're monopolizing.

[โ€“] jabjoe@feddit.uk 3 points 2 days ago

We want standards rather than monopolies. Normies & politicians (who get their tech advice from big tech) often get the two confused.

We want an ecosystem of competition, built on standards.

The Bazaar, not the Cathedral.

[โ€“] dynamoMaus@feddit.org 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Let's dream big: how would you organize and pay a huge amount of open source software? Tech project giants?

We don't even need a huge amount of open source software. Just the important protocols.

Similar to how it was done in the early days of the internet:

Some committee (ideally made up partly of researchers, open-source institutions and private companies) agrees on an open standard, and then they all together work towards improving it, and they all use it in a way that is interoperable.