this post was submitted on 15 May 2025
34 points (97.2% liked)

Buy European

5873 readers
540 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.
  • No generative AI content

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 3 months ago
MODERATORS
maam@feddit.uk
alex@jlai.lu
circledot@feddit.org
Argyle13@lemmy.world
Sunshine@feddit.is
Sunshine@lemmy.ca
buyeuropean@lemmy.ca
buyeuropean@feddit.org
lazycog@feddit.uk
34
How can traditional British television survive the US streamers (www.bbc.com)
submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by klu9@lemmy.ca to c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
9 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/64004969

"We're in danger of having no public service broadcasting within a decade, certainly within 20 years," he says. "We don't have a strategy for their survival. It's that serious. The regulators need to start thinking about it."

Do we want a future where European media is dominated by US streamers like Netflix and YouTube, and European broadcasters are a shadow of their former selves or have even ceased to exist?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] ximtor@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago

my first thought goes to YT, not tv which would come second (without an ad-blocker, how many ads are there with each single video on YT?)

Oh i completely agree with you and hate it whenever i get in contact with YT. It's just not the first thing to think about for me as I try not to use it in the first place ^^. I generally can't understand how people use the internet without ad blockers, it's obnoxious and easy to forget if one has all devices properly setup to block that crap.

I would like for us to stay diverse and not become a second-class wannabe US consumers (not even citizens). But I could be wrong, obviously, and maybe that would be amazing to eat the same cultural production the US as feasted upon?

I also agree with your sentiment. My statement was based on the vibe I got, รก la "we don't want to change we just want to keep it as is and be protected by rules". I just meant that the whole TV thing needs to evolve. That dows not mean everything should adopt the US way, but they can't expect people to just keep sitting at home and watch TV when it just doesn't keep up.

Unfortunately many alternatives for many people are only Netflix and the likes..but I would just love if Europe would at least try to beat them with alternatives and not just stick with what we know and ban the evil US.

I should also take a few min to read the article...