Overview:
The community to discuss buying European goods and services.
Rules:
Be kind to each other, and argue in good faith. No direct insults nor disrespectful and condescending comments.
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Feddit.uk's instance rules apply:
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
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!deapple@lemm.ee (old)
!deapple@piefed.social (new)
!deamazon@lemm.ee (old)
!deamazon@piefed.social (new)
Stop Publisher Kill Switch in Games Practice:
!skg@lemmy.dbzer0.com (new)
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swisscows.com is deffinetly worth checking out, as they not only do have a search engine, but also mail services and a messenger aswell as a vpn. And their name is kinda funny.
No, no, always say "google" as "search on the web", so that they lose the trademark.
I said ยซLemme Qwant this real quickยป a couple times as a joke and now people make fun of me.
That was a bad decision on my part
Ha! Look! It's the Qwantter! /s
Honestly "I'll qwant it" rolls off the tongue nicely compared to "let me duckduckgo it" or any other alternative.
duck it!
Been trying Qwant but missing many of the duck features :(
Added bonus to saying that: everyone ducks their head suddenly
I like it!
It's better than "let me startpage this real quick"
ยซLet me DuckDuckGo til real quickยป
Hell, this one:
ยซLet me BING this real quickยป
Just Duck it!
I'm bummed they removed it from their logo's hover text.
Qwant (at least the way I would pronounce it, let's say in a French way) doesn't sound bad at all.
I pronounce it like an Aussie, been enjoying the site and it's results. These quants are allright.
I'm a Kagier myself, but I don't say "I'm gonna kagi this". The word "search" still works, people understand it.
Whatโs a ยซSearchยป?
Steve ballmer made the same mistake
Let me Qwantatize the information
I'm confused, it says it's anonymous but doesn't let me search without an account?
Tried to search a random topic: instant pop up asking to subscribe to pro....
Let me ecosia that real quick!
I'd also point out Stract: https://stract.com/about
This project was previously funded through NGI0 Entrust, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet program. Learn more at the NLnet project page.
The languages dropdown on the search result has "US" listed as a language, but not English. Literally unusable.
Ooh, and you can search the fediverse!
They say they have their own index, but they also say they send every search request to bing..
Swisscow want me to buy the premium plan or sign in to use it (no close button to be found), I just use Qwant instead
Swisscows has actually been around for long but I donโt think there have been much positive feedbackโฆ
So it's another bing front-end. Like ecosia. Aren't there any european indexes?
Ecosia and Qwant are currently developing their own index in a joint venture.
I really wish they would build YACY integration so self-hosters can participate
Happy to hear that. Not usable yet?
Not yet. The project was announced in November 2024. First results are expected in summer 2025.
There is another project from the UK, that seems pretty promising: https://mwmbl.org/ https://alpha.mwmbl.org/ (a much nicer UI)
let me click on random links until the hand of god takes me where i need to be real quick
Swiss cow?
We have a saying here, "Das geht auf keine Kuhhaut", "that doesn't fit on any cow hide", meaning, too much crazies/bullshit to fit even on a cow hide, let alone a pergament (hide of small game).
You can DuckDuckGoFuckYourself!
Stupid question but how can I download apps like swisscows without having to go on Play Store? I have an android phone
In addition to fdroid (your other reply) you can uae aurora as an anonymous front end to play store.
You'll need to download it off fdroid or the git page
If you really need an entire app instead of just using your browser, there's https://f-droid.org/packages/de.tobiasbielefeld.searchbar/
Let me Brave that ~~shit~~ real quick
I used to use Swisscows often. They usually give good results, moreso than other search sites. I only stopped using them because their site doesn't work without javascript, and I don't really use that anymore.