By gekko513
I am becoming convinced I should migrate my private mail to another service hosted within the EU. But my god do I not want to deal with migrating mail.
It’s a process.
You just create a new address (or point your existing one to the new provider) and slowly migrate
I degoogled my crap 5-6 years ago and I still have a handful of sites sending mail to my @gmail address because they don’t allow changing your address at all 😆
Americans probably should have boycotted American products back when Europe put consumer data safeguards in and the US government refused to. Our food safety, our work life, our online data, our health care-- all driven by profit motive in the US but protected as rights in Europe.
Libertarian ideas are quite popular in the US; we are waiting for the invisible hand of the market to save us. Learned helplessness at its best.
These brands all still follow all those rules when they operate in Europe, they just don’t bother on the other side. Like we get snicker bars and whatever, but they’re just slightly healthier or at least don’t contain stuff that’s actively bad for you, but they’re still shit if that’s all you eat. The usual example is Fanta where the difference is really stark.
I’ll just buy using temu or AliExpress. European brands are too expensive in my third world country
Sad Element/Matrix noises q.q
Right! Tedomum.net is hosted in France 🥖
JPEG over WEBP
The buy Canadian Facebook group if you Facebook is full of great alternatives. Yes Facebook sucks the rigid cock of Satan, but it is very useful.
You make facebook sound a lot cooler than it actually is.
Why don’t we(lemmy) get to suck the rigid cock of Satan? This is metal as fuck.
I think if you quit you’ll find you’re fine without it.
It’s hard because all my old Livejournal friends are on there.
The right hand column for “Drinks” can just be tap water barring a few exceptions water in Europe is clean and safe as well as being delicious in some countries!
another propaganda attempt to disband the Europeans …
This is misinformation. BlueSky is not a non profit. It is a public benefit company. The shareholders still expect profit.
The shareholders expect growth and therefore increase in the value of their investment, public benefit companies are however under no obligation to their shareholders to pass on profits to shareholders in the form of dividends. It’s definitely not a non-profit either though, it’s a different structure.
Plenty of “regular” for profit companies focus on increasing share value by investing profits back into the company instead of paying out dividends. That doesn’t really mean anything.
Edit: I see what you mean based on what I said. They expect a return on investment is a better way to phrase it.
You will never avoid Coke. Just admit your impending failure.
Proton’s CEO supports Trump despite being an EU based company:
Proton is a Swiss company, not EU
Sure, but it’s listed in the image on services.
Europe is a continent, EU is the European Union which has 27 member countries in Europe that are not Switzerland.
Yes, absolutely. Again, not the point of my comment which is the chart the OP posted has some questionable suggestions if you’re picking and choosing businesses based on their political support (which I fully support people doing)
Europe != E.U.
They support their pockets
Hello and welcome to the point!
Pretty ironic that the website that created this, buy-european-made.eu, is actually promoting their Reddit community. They should really switch to an EU-hosted Lemmy instance, and also join Mastodon, just like european-alternatives.eu: @european_alternatives@mastodon.social
streaming: the right side, most of those are country specific.
7-Eleven is 100% Japanese since 2005
Boycott 9-Eleven instead.
There are so many issues with this, lots of wrong information, recommendations of stuff that’s bad and really shouldn’t be recommended and stuff that really should be there isn’t. Please don’t share it this further, it’s absolutely shit.
So whats a better list, or what should be removed?
“Perfect is the enemy of good. Please accept this slop.”
TBF, it says “European”, not “good”.
It gets very obvious when it reccomends basically just volkswagens and volkswagen rebadges under cars.
“Oh no this is wrong”… proceeds to shit on it, not provide a single example or correction
Home to Go is just a search engine for VRBO, which is a US company owned by Expedia. It is not a replacement for Airbnb, nor does it stop supporting US companies.
Good to know. See? Some actual actionable information
BlueSky is not owned by a non profit. First row.
I’m not in it but I have been told it’s almost impossible to control the narrative as Muskrat does on Twitter
It is held by a benefit corporation which means they have to, at least pretend, to bring some societal benefit
While AT Protocol is sort of federated in a sense, no one really runs aggregators (which serves half of the role an instance does in ActivityPub) besides BlueSky themselves, so they can still control it if they wanted to.
Also, “normal” for profit companies can also pretend to want to bring good to the world. It’s misinformation because public benefit companies are allowed to collect a profit (post says non profit).
I still believe BlueSky is world’s better than Twitter! But it’s important to be honest about it.
Totally fair
