Buy European
Overview:
The community to discuss buying European goods and services.
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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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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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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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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
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I hope Germans are smarter than that. Also, Daniel is not the most German name they could have found, I am sure a Klaus or a Reinhardt would have worked better. Unless Daniel is an American employee conceived in Germany by his parents and the tagline refers to him.
Also, here in Denmark and in Italy Coca-Cola relies on local bottling companies who would surely lose volumes, but those would be also freed up for local or do-good alternatives, such as Fritz Cola (which is very good in it's zero calories version) and Gaza Cola (yeah, that's probably never gonna happen in Germany, but still a good example).
You think that Daniel is "not the most German name" but suggest Klaus or Reinhardt is more representative? What else, should he wear Lederhosen?
Daniel can be plausibly American as easily as it can be German. Klaus or Reinhardt sounds American only if itโs someoneโs great-grandfather from before WW1, whose parents immigrated in 1848.
I don't know how accurate this website is, but forebears.io has a list of common German names, and the top three are: Peter, Michael, and Wolfgang. Daniel was listed as 171st most popular.
That list is almost exclusively old fashioned names, which, combined with the website name makes me wonder if theyโre scraping obituaries for the names. Iโve lived here for most of a decade and Iโve never met a Wolfgang or Ursula under 60 (actually of the top ten, I only know young people named Michael, Peter, Thomas, and Maria). I do know several older Wolfgangs and Helgas, so they certainly were common names at one point-the data might just be 80 years delayed. Actually going through it, all of my husbandโs older family membersโ names are in the top thirty. (Edit: also no idea how accurate this list is, but the most popular names from the 50s are all the same as on the other list, so I suspect it is just gathering data upon death)
I know at least five Daniels in their 20s and 30s though. Iโm a) an immigrant, and b) just going off of my own experience, so take that with a grain of salt.
Quick aside about Maria as a manโs name: itโs traditionally Austrian, afaik, and itโs more commonly a second name (like Rainer Maria Rilke), but thereโs no chance that 0% of the Marias in Germany are men.
Wolfgang is such a sick name