this post was submitted on 16 Apr 2025
127 points (97.7% liked)

Buy European

5433 readers
621 users here now

Overview:

The community to discuss buying European goods and services.


Matrix Chat


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.

Benefits of Buying Local:

local investment, job creation, innovation, increased competition, more redundancy.

European Instances

Lemmy:

Matrix:


Related Communities:

Buy Local:

Continents:

European:

Buying and Selling:

Boycott:

Countries:

Companies:

Stop Publisher Kill Switch in Games Practice:


Banner credits: BYTEAlliance


founded 2 months ago
MODERATORS
 

For the people who were using FREENOW (originally from Germany), I just received a notification on the app saying it is now being acquired by Lyft, an American company.

Just thought I'd share it here.

Edit: If you're planning to delete your account, see the comment by Alaknar on making a GDPR request. It's quick and easy to do.

top 14 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[โ€“] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 39 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] gon@lemm.ee 7 points 2 days ago
[โ€“] n3m37h@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

America, the land of Monopolies and Oligarchs

[โ€“] Pirata@lemm.ee 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Expect it to get worse throughout this administration. Perhaps even beyond.

The market manipulation has been insane, and I barley see any backlash.

[โ€“] Alaknar@lemm.ee 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In case you want to remove your account due to this, HERE'S a link to their How To, and HERE'S the link to the contact form.

The process is very simple:

In the 'Main contact reason' section, select 'GDPR' and in the Subject type 'I want to delete my account'. Make sure to use the email address registered to your FREENOW account

[โ€“] Pirata@lemm.ee 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Excellent addition. I wish companies just deleted your data by default, but we know that's sadly not how it works. Thank you.

[โ€“] ThisIsDys@europe.pub 6 points 2 days ago

I had already gotten rid of my account because they were exploiting local taxi drivers pretty horribly in a similar way to delivery apps vs local restaurants.

But now I might be able to convince friends to delete their accounts.

[โ€“] MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We actually had a local alternative here, BEAT. Then FreeNow bought it and we had to switch apps which was annoying but hey at least it wasn't Uber. Now this gets bought too. I guess it's either Uber or Lyft now.

[โ€“] Pirata@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Bolt still exists!!! And tends to be cheaper than Uber.

[โ€“] MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub 1 points 2 days ago

Bolt came here this year apparently so I may try it next time. Still not available in most cities though :/

[โ€“] huppakee@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Canrith6696@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

And Cabify!

@Pirata Thought of starting to use Freenow as well. It sucks that this was the way to make room for Lyft in Europe...

I'll still rely on public transit fwiw. Had some poor experience lately that made me reconsider using this type of service at all...

[โ€“] frank@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago