Europellinore @ Europellinore @europe.pub

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We, as Europeans, need way more focus on buying European, and supporting local innovation, entrepreneurs, jobs and economy.

For everyone who wants to stick the message all over Europe, there are some great tools for that, like some shirts and stickers at https://hardno.eu/, stickers at https://ko-fi.com/buyeuropean/shop and presumably other websites as well.

Gmail —> ProtonMail.

Google drive and iCloud —> PCloud, ProtonDrive, Kooft (still have to drop one or 2).

Google translate—> DeepL.

Uber —> Bolt.

Windows —> Linux (although still mostly using windows b/c company laptop).

Google maps —> Mapy, although still sometimes using google for street view.

Edge, Chrome —> Vivaldi, Ecosia.

Google search —> Ecosia.

ChatGPT —> LeChat (Mistral), although still sometimes use ChatGPT.

WhatsApp —> Signal (open source, although still American) and Threema.

https://distrochooser.de/

Edit: not really for this purpose. But maybe you can ask ChatGPT or European https://chat.mistral.ai/chat

True, although I think it still has advantages to switch to platforms like DailyMotion (although I’m not a fan of it, and see multiple disadvantages too):

1. To weaken the monopoly of the big monopolist, YouTube in this case. Most people are hardly able or willing to leave any monopolist, and it they do, the will only start with something that’s comparable, understandable, easy, and has scale. Not to something that requires some kind of safari through a complicated fediverse jungle where they immediately get lost in discussions about instances and stuff.
2. To boost jobs, skills, expertise and innovation in building this kind of tech environments. Which later can contribute to better European alternatives than just relying on whatever USA thinks is good for us.

She did also post that video on a European platform, but even many people in this group aren’t used to check at first whether or not a video is available on a European platform too https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9jkxe0

Exactly. Tried to cast a documentary from their app to my tv yesterday. 100% impossible. In the end, had to watch it on a laptop. https://kolektiva.media/w/ra7bfqXCyqBFn7dSFhneFy

iPhones, laptops, operating systems, software, cola, oil, gas, nights at American hotel companies, Heinz, Lays, Mondelez, Nike, ‘social’ media, missiles, cars, cloud storage, Netflix, YouTube, Disney everything, Barbie, music, app stores, credit card services, movies. To name a few

Version without a small URL is also available, at https://hardno.eu/

For those who want some useful stickers to help spreading the message all around Europe, check https://ko-fi.com/buyeuropean/shop .

Ordered a large set of these, also to stick it around all over Europe 😄 🇪🇺 👍 https://ko-fi.com/buyeuropean/shop Small stickers for on shopping carts etc, big stickers for outdoors 😄

Quite affordable Buy European stickers are available at https://ko-fi.com/buyeuropean/shop

Quite affordable Buy European stickers are available at https://ko-fi.com/buyeuropean/shop

Or else, https://distrochooser.de/ might be a useful help to make a suitable choice (which probably comes down to Linux Mint or Zorin anyway)

https://buy-european.net/en/alternative-to/cloudflare

https://hardno.eu/