Overview:
The community to discuss buying European goods and services.
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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
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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Stop Publisher Kill Switch in Games Practice:
Banner credits: BYTEAlliance
"Amazon must have recognized the potential success, as 73% of people listen to audiobooks daily."
Well that's a lie. They even posted a reference for the statistic but clearly didn't bother to read it.
The number their source gives is 45% (for US and no mention of daily), with 73% of those people listening during their commutes.
Also, that "Fresh" audiobook statistics article is from 2021, but they slapped "(2025)" onto the title to preserve the freshness.
Its so cost prohibative, use your library.
Cost? ๐ดโโ ๏ธ๐ฆ
Support your local library by voting and donating.
Support your global library by scanning, ripping, and seeding.
My library is a joke.
I can't deal with audio books as they are spoken much slower than I like to read. If they spoke as fast as I read, however, it would sound awful.
Maybe it's about time we have a database of business connections e.g who owns what / what is owned by whom, which companies work together and what their relationships are, where the businesses are headquartered and spread out across the globe, etc.
It doesn't have to have any agenda, just that data. However it could be used to then have a "boycott" app or something. "I want to boycott FAANG, their subsidiaries, and whichever other companies are owned by their CEOs". With the app, that should be a simple ask. Or simply "I want to boycott anything Nestlรฉ".
There are boycott apps out there already. Havenโt tried them all to see if they offer what youโre looking for, but they are out there.
Edit: Boycott for Peace is one
I haven't found any that's opensource and has a open database with an explanation of how it's augmented / sources for the stuff in the DB. That leads me to question the app or its DB. What if they were paid to exclude a relationship or company entirely? Crazier things have happened.
So the solution is to not use the app and hope other people make one you approve of?
Yes. They literally stated in their post what the shortcomings of the app are.
No, they mentioned paranoia they had and provided no alternative
Asking for transparency in an inherently political app is not paranoia.
That's a depressingly long list.
AbeBooks? TIL. I love that site
I use World of Books instead. It's British owned and good value.